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Chicago and the Labor Movement: Metropolitan Unionism in the 1930's (U of Illinois Press, 1961), strong on clothing, teamsters, steel, meat packing. online; Roscigno, Vincent J. The voice of southern labor: radio, music, and textile strikes, 1929-1934 (2004) online; Taft, Philip. The AF of L. from the Death of Gompers to the Merger (Harper ...
American labor activist Mother Jones (1837–1930) July 1903 (United States) Labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones leads child workers in demanding a 55-hour work week. 1904 (United States) New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike. [25] 1904 (United States) United Packinghouse Workers of America. [25] 1904 (United States)
Although the National Labor Relations Act was initially a boon for unions, it also sowed the seeds of the labor movement's decline. The act enshrined the right to unionize, but the system of workplace elections it created meant that unions had to organize each new factory or firm individually rather than organize by industry.
The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34 [4] [2] [1] was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days.
The landlords accepted these terms. By 1932, the Sharecroppers Union began to face adversities regarding actual violence, the distribution of mail among counties for any attempts of organization and also the threatening presence and an outcome of physical violence from possible organized terrorist groups or from the local government, which most of the time were the same entity.
State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago.
The Communist Party USA and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but wasn't successful either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda of fighting for socialism and full workers' control over industry, or in converting their influence in any particular union ...
Inclusive labor movements have fostered multi-racial democracy across American history, whether organizing Black and white workers into the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the New Deal ...