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Labor history of the United States - Organized Labor to 1900 | | Labor history of the United States - Organized Labor to 1900: Encyclopedia II - Labor history of the United States - Organized Labor to 1900 | | |
Labor history of the United States - Early Unions.
Labor history of the United States - Railroad Brotherhoods.
WWW Guide to history of railway labor in late 19th century
Labor history of the United States - Knights of Labor.
Labor history of the United States - Eight Hour Day.
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| | | Labor history of the United States: Encyclopedia II - Labor history of the United States - Organized Labor to 1900
Labor history of the United States - Organized Labor to 1900
Labor history of the United States - Early Unions
Labor history of the United States - Railroad Brotherhoods
- WWW Guide to history of railway labor in late 19th century
Labor history of the United States - Knights of Labor
Labor history of the United States - Eight Hour Day
Labor history of the United States - Violence 1888-1894
Labor history of the United States - Rise of AFL
The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions began in 1881 under the leadership of Samuel Gompers. Its members were different unions. its original goals were to encourage the formation of trade unions and to obtain legislation, such as prohibition of child labor, a national eight hour day, and exclusion of foreign contract workers. Samuel Gompers of the Cigar Makers Union was chosen as the chairman of its Committee on Organization and as a member of its Legislative Committee.
The Federation made some efforts to obtain favorable legislation, but had little success in organizing or chartering new unions. It came out in support of the proposal, traditionally attributed to Peter J. McGuire of the Carpenters Union, for a national Labor Day holiday on the first Monday in September, and threw itself behind the eight hour movement, which sought to limit the workday by either legislation or union organizing.
In 1886, as the relations between the trade union movement and the Knights of Labor worsened, McGuire and other union leaders called for a convention to be held at Columbus, Ohio on December 8th. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions merged with the new organization, known as the American Federation of Labor or AFL, formed at that convention.
The AFL was formed in large part because of the dissatisfaction of many trade union leaders with the Knights of Labor, an organization that contained many trade unions and which had played a leading role in some of the largest strikes of the era. The new AFL distinguished itself from the Knights by emphasizing the autonomy of each trade union affiliated with it and limiting membership to workers and organizations made up of workers, unlike the Knights.
The AFL grew steadily in the late nineteenth century while the Knights disappeared. Although Gompers at first advocated something like industrial unionism, he retreated from that in the face of opposition from the craft unions that made up most of the AFL. The emphasis made for much stronger locals with which the workers could identify, and derived benefits in terms of insurance, fellowship, and bargaining power.
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 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Organized Labor to 1900", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
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