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    2. The late 19th century was a time of rapid industrialization in the United States during which many people developed different views towards wealth and the wealthy class. Three specific viewers who had similar‚ but contrasting opinions of this were Andrew Carnegie‚ Eugene V. Debs‚ and Booker T. Washington who believed that wealth could either enable people to rise in society or that it should be distributed. Booker T. Washington’s stance of the wealth created was that it enabled people to rise in

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    labor‚ worker strikes were prominent and were also easily put down by other scabs who were desperate for work. Strikes involved quitting jobs rather than violence. • Employers used many tactics for defending unions such as the lockout‚ blacklists‚ yellow-dog contracts‚ e.t.c. • Labor was often divided on the best methods to fighting management. • Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was during an economic depression‚ when the railroad companies cut wages in order to reduce costs and this strike spread to

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    Miners’ Strike Exam Questions 1) You can learn from Source A about the role of women in the miners’ strike that women wanted to have a movement to support the miners and their families in the UK miners’ strike of 1984–85. The movement is recognised with bringing feminist ideas into practice in an industrial argument and empowering women to take a public role in a community with a male-dominated society. They showed this by their participation in enforcing the law to change rights of which miners

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    The General Strike The General Strike started May 3rd 1926 and lasted nine days ending on the 12th May 1926. Mine owners wanted to normalise profits even during times of economic instability – which meant that miners’ wages would be reduced and working hours would be extended. The miners were not happy with the changes that were about to happen so they decided to go on strike. This documentary exercise is going to evaluate two primary sources from the General Strike. It will consider form‚

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    Strikes and Lockouts

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    employees in an effort to obtain for the employer more desirable terms. Lockouts can have three purposes: 1. Designed to frustrate bargaining efforts 2. An economic countermove to union’s right to strike 3. To minimize economic or operational losses threatened by an imminent strike The third type of lockout is legally justified and provides the employer a right to protect the economic integrity of his enterprise. The Supreme Court too accepts “special circumstances” which may force

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    Devante Williams pd 7 Labor Strike The labor strike in which I chose was the textile workers strike. The textile strike happen in 1934 which then was in U.S. history the largest labor strike. The strike involved half of million strikers. Textile workers came from New England‚ the Mid-Atlantic states‚ and the U.S. Southern states. The strike present o for twenty-two days. They strike twenty-two days about issues were deplorable working conditions‚ low wages‚ and lack of union recognition. However

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    | | |The Right to Strike | |Mini Case 3 | Seven of the employer’s 11 concrete truck drivers

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    Strike action   A strike is a collective withdrawal of labour by employees. Under such action‚ employees refuse to perform all work‚ not just selected duties. Strikes are usually‚ but not always‚ organised by a union. The purpose of a strike is to pressure an employer (or other third party) into complying with particular demands or refraining from doing something.   Under the federal Fair Work Act 2009 strike action may be ’protected action’ if undertaken during a bargaining period for an enterprise

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    Types of Strike

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    Strikes and lockouts constitutional or official strikes unofficial strikes general strikes lockouts rotating or revolving strikes sit-ins tool-down or pen-down strike The data supplied to the ILO do not include statistics on sympathetic or political strikes or on gheraos (harassment of employers‚ etc. by workers preventing them from leaving the premises until their claims are granted) which result in work stoppages. The statistics for these types of action are collected and published separately

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    The 1997 Teamster strike against UPS was not simply a victory‚ but a smashing victory for the US working class and therefore offers many valuable lessons for today’s labor militants‚ both with respect to the strategic orientation and the day-to-day tactics. UPS is a “Fortune 500” company‚ meaning it is one of the most profitable in the nation‚ boasting of a $1.15 billion profit margin prior to the strike. In 1992‚ the workforce was evenly divided between full-time and part-time workers‚ but by 1996

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