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Most of the 13,000 striking controllers defied the back-to-work order, and were dismissed by President Reagan on 5 August. [49] Reagan ordered them to leave. Largest labor rally in United States history broke out in protest of Reagan's order. [49] 1981 (United States) Baseball Players' Strike occurred. [49] October 1982 (United States)
[45] [46] The US was also the only industrial power to have no workman's compensation program in place to support injured workers. [46] From 1860 to 1900, the wealthiest 2 percent of American households owned more than a third of the nation's wealth, while the top 10 percent owned roughly three-quarters of it. [47]
[85] [86] 1900-1914 was a golden age that rural spokesmen used as the ideal standard for the "doctrine of parity" that shaped federal policy for the rest of the 20th century. [87] [88] After taking inflation into account, the gross farm income doubled from 1900 to 1920, and average annual income (after inflation) rose 40%. [89] [90]
Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, [62] [63] sociologist, [64] public administrator [65] [66] and author. She was a notable figure in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and an advocate of world peace. [67] She co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous ...
Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92 (1896) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. dissenting in the Massachusetts Supreme Court, argued that organisation on the worker side is necessary to counter combination on the side of capital, if the market is to work fairly. Loewe v. Lawlor 208 U.S. 274 (1908) or The Danbury Hatters' case; Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S ...
Labor history is a sub-discipline of social history which specializes on the history of the working classes and the labor movement.Labor historians may concern themselves with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and other factors besides class but chiefly focus on urban or industrial societies which distinguishes it from rural history.
Outside agriculture, it gradually declined in the early 20th century, except in the South which added children in textile and other industries. Child labor remained common in the agricultural sector until compulsory school laws were enacted by the states. In the North state laws prohibited work in mines and later in factories.
In 1915, the Bureau of Labor Statistics had formed a more systemized set of data collection. Data on the number of workers involved remained a rough estimate but more consistent. [5]: 195, (203 in pdf) The data however also included strikes with fewer than six workers involved, likely leading to slightly higher worker estimates. [3]: 36