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was an American labor leader. He was most notable for his leadership of nine Philadelphia garment workers in founding the Knights of Labor in 1869, the first national labor union in the United States.

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Voters can adopt a change in law (an initiative), disapprove a law passed by the Legislature (a referendum), or remove an elected official from office (a recall).

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The minuscule labor and socialist movement started to push for 8-hour workdays, Sunday off, and the dignity of a holiday in their name. The first push for union recognition and worker recognition was not for more pay alone but a protest about conditions, the end of child labor and public education.

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Also known as the the Knights of Labor, organized unskilled and skilled workers, campaigned for an eight hour workday, and aspired to form a cooperative society in which laborers owned the industries in which they worked.

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Labor movement was able to help give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired.

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The Triangle Fire tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous conditions of factories and led to many laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers. .

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We have high regulations and laws against child labor, education is required for 12 years for kids, and every state has its own minimum wage, and businesses vary.

Triangle Fire inspired a great campaign for workplace reform. About 30 different laws were passed also regulating working conditions and minimum wage.

The 17th amendment still helps protect worker's and citizen's rights.

In 1911, California voters approved the constitutional processes of initiative, referendum, and recall.

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The Founder of the AFL

The first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Arguably the most significant person in American labor movement history

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Mother Jones- began the March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's Long Island summer home in Oyster Bay, New York, to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor and to demand a 55-hour work week.

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https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/child-labor#:~:text=The%20Great%20Depression,- The%20Great%20Depression&text=Almost%20all%20of%20the%20codes,placed%20limitations%20on%20child%20labor.
https://laborcenter.uiowa.edu https://depts.washington.edu/moves/SP_intro.shtml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_States

https://npg.si.edu/blog/tragedy-triangle-shirtwaist-factory#:~:text=In%20its%20aftermath%2C%20the%20Triangle,minimum%20wage%20and%20working%20conditions.&text=The%20fire%20had%20so%20overwhelmed,to%20take%20action%20as%20well.

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Made for people to realize Unions are a beneficial organization that every American citizen has the right to deserve. Helped advocate for the legalization of unions.

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People that stood for the labor movement usually stood with the socialist political movement. Socialism called for means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Socialists wanted to replace the capitalist system entirely.

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The National Child Labor Committee was established through the labor movement. Their work to ending child labor was combined with efforts to provide free, compulsory education for all children, and culminated in the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, which set federal standards for child labor.

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The Triangle Shirtwaist factory Fire - Events 

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The Triangle Shirtwaist factory Fire - Events 

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The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire was a massive fire due to the cause of an unextinguished match or cigarette. This was the deadliest industrial disaster in U.S. History with about 146 deaths and over 78 injuries.

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Before the 17th Amendment states elected senators not the people, the 17th Amendment made it so the people chose in order to make democracy work better as well as protecting citizen rights.