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During the war nearly 6 million women joined the workforce. They filled roles that men had monopolized, such as steel workers, lumber workers, and bus drivers. [68] By 1945 there were 4.7 women in clerical positions which was an 89% increase from 1940. Another 4.5 million women working in factories, usually in unskilled positions, up 112%. [127]
The main goal was control of working conditions and settling which rival union was in control. ... and associations during the Gilded Age. American Art Association ...
Disruption was widespread and at its height, the strikes were supported by about 100,000 workers. With the intervention of federal troops in several locations, most of the strikes were suppressed by early August 1877. Labor continued to work to organize into unions to work for better wages and conditions.
Oregon, 243 U.S. 426 (1917) in a change of policy, the US Supreme Court held the 10-hour working day was constitutional Debs v. United States , 249 U.S. 211 (1919) after Eugene Debs protested World War I publicly he was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Supreme Court held this was lawful.
Gilded Age: 1877–1896 ... was a period in the United States during the early 20th century ... and seeking to improve urban living and working conditions. ...
HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age” takes a deep dive into the era of 1882 New York City at a time of heightened prosperity, industrial growth and an internal clash amid society as “new ...
In The Gilded Age, The Breakers' Great Hall and Music Room act as Bertha Russell's (played by Carrie Coon) ballroom. This work of Neo-Italian Renaissance architecture was built between 1893 and ...
Slavishak, Edward S., "Working-Class Muscle: Homestead and Bodily Disorder in the Gilded Age", The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3 (October 2004): 339–368. Warren, Kenenth. Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of America (2000) Wolff, Leon "Battle at Homestead" American Heritage Magazine ...