Unionization: Objectives
After you have completed this section, you will be able to:
- Identify the key points of socialistic theory.
- Examine the working conditions that led to a unionization and collective bargaining in the late 1800s.
- Identify the origins of key labor unions and the role they played in the politics of improving working conditions.
- Identify and analyze the causes and results of key labor strikes.
- Identify key dates and the contributions of key people during the period of unionization.
- Define the following terms:
- Socialism
- Socialist Party
- Collective bargaining
- Knights of Labor
- American Federation of Labor (AFL)
- Closed shop
- Strike
- Boycott
- Scabs
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Wobblies
- Farmer’s Alliance
- Railway Strike of 1877
- Haymarket Riot
- Homestead Strike
- Pullman Strike
- Pinkertons