A few days ago
Drea

What was the national Labor Union and how did it affect the u.s. History?

need to know what is the national labor union and how it was important to us or how it changed our history….

ples help…

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Anonymous

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“The National Labor Union was the first national union in the United States. It was created in 1866 and included many types of workers. This union did not include Chinese, and partially included blacks and women. This union won the right to an eight hour workday in government jobs. After this union crumbled, the Knights of Labor became the lead.

The Knights of Labor was founded in the United States in 1869. Eventually over 700,000 workers joined the Knights.

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded by Samuel Gompers. By 1904, AFL-affiliated unions had a membership of over 1.4 million nationwide. Under Gompers’s leadership, the AFL advocated an approach known as “business” or “pure and simple” unionism, which emphasized collective bargaining to reach its goals. Demands were centered around improvements to the immediate work environment, like better wages, hours and working conditions.

In France, Germany, and other European countries, socialist parties and anarchists played a prominent role in forming and building up trade unions, especially from the 1870s onwards. This stood in contrast to the British experience, where moderate New Model Unions dominated the union movement from the mid-nineteenth century and where trade unionism was stronger than the political labor movement until the formation and growth of the Labour Party in the early years of the twentieth century.”

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