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After the Great Fire of New York, the economy fell into a depression and flour prices grew four dollars per barrel. Workers couldn't provide for their families with the income they received and those prices. Many workers gathered so they could hear other workers talk about denouncing the rich. When a speaker talked about the company, Eli Hart & Co., they became very heated and stormed the store by throwing up to a knee-deep amount of flour onto the streets of New York.

The significance of the Flour Riots that occurred in New York was so that the workers would be able to protect and feed their families. They protested to convince the upper class in the community to lower the prices of flour.

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The Lowell Mill Girls were women ages 15-35 years old that wanted to have a place in the economy.  This back-breaking work was the only way that women could be "set free". the work conditions at the mill were terrible. They would have the girls work 12-14 hours a day 5 days a week with half a day of work on Saturday.

This was the chance for women to break out of the idea that they are stuck being a homemaker. This was also a very big step for the women to make their way into the economy and make the tiniest bit of money.

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Uriah Stephens founded the Knights of Labor when he lost everything and had to become a factory worker. He realized that one company of workers could not fulfill his wishes of string for higher wages. He believed that all of the wage-earning workers would have to strike so that they could fight for the interests of them all.

They are a nationwide union. The knights are available to all forms of labor. The most inclusive labor union in the history of the United States.

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Blue-collar workers in Chicago went on a city-wide strike. They were fighting for better hours, conditions, and wages. The workers from the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company went to the Haymarket square o protest against police brutality. The police brutality was seen on May 3 (the day before the riots) when a worker was killed and many others were injured by police intervening to protect strikebreakers and also intimidate strikers.

They damaged the reputation of organizing protests and riots. Created a negative connotation because of the 10% that will cause trouble and become violent.

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A massive strike because Henry Frick and Andrew Carnegie fired over half of the workers at the Carnegie Steel Company. Frick hired the Pinkerton agents that were basically the muscle for the company. there were gun battles that killed and injured many Pinkerton agents and strikers.

Damaged the reputation for collective bargaining because of the violence. the strikers tried to get the company to lower wages as well as their working hours.

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The Pullman Palace Car Company decided to lower the wages of the workers by around 25% because of the economic depression. As the wages of theses workers were already low, their families were facing their starvation. They tried to discuss their problems of low wages, 16-hour workdays, and poor living conditions but the companys president refused to even meet with them.

The workers had stopped 29 railroads all around the country. These laborers were fighting for their wages, hours, and also the conditions that they were working in.

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One of the first labor unions for skilled workers/craftsmen.

Learning that certain types of workers need to have their own unions for their specific economic standards. Helped create an artisans type union that addresses their specific needs.

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she was widely known as the fiery agitator for the union rights of coal miners, child laborers, and many others. From 18171- 1890, she was able to become a highly visible figure in labor movements all across America. She helped find the Social Democratic Party in 1898.

Her entire lifes work was doing all that she could to promote the end of child labor in the United States. She was able to have an autobiography published only five years before she passed away.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (March 25, 1911)

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (March 25, 1911)

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The fire assumes to be started by a thrown-away cigarette that was fed with other waste that comes from a t-shirt making factory. The workers were trapped inside of the building that was locked from the outside so they could prevent theft in the company. the workers had the choice to either burn to death or jump from the building and die. 129 women and 17 men died that day within 18 minutes.

Lead to nationwide fire safety codes to prevent from this happening ever again. This also helped shape many labor laws for the future of the country.

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Coal miners uninized to go against the owners of the coal mines. It was a three day battle between the miners and pinkerton agents.

If you try to deprive people of their freedom to create unions, they will be willing to die for that. They have the mindset that if you take this from me then you are taking everything.

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Made in the middle of the great depression. Told businesses that they cannot tell their workers that they are not allowed to unionize.

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This act was able to establish the minimum wage for the United States. This also was completly capable of coming up with a set amount of hours a worker had to work in a week. The labor act decided that a worker was not obligated to work overtime without compensation for the hours they put in.

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The Taft-Hartley Act was an act that impacted both the power and the growth of unions around the country. The rights of labor were still preserved with this act but the option not to join a union was guaranteed. there were still state laws like where union shops were permitted only where the state allowed them and the majority of workers voted for them to be.

This act gutted the unions across America. Protects the right of a person to work. States are given the choice of being a right-to-work state or a union state.

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Started his long journey of impacting by leading a five-year strike for California grape pickers which lead to a nationwide California grape boycott. His years included many different battles with different growers and companies. Most of the agribusiness ended with a signing of a bargaining agreement.

Helped the quality of life go up for the agrarian Latin American workers. Founded the United Farm Workers as well as co-founding the National Farm Workers Association.

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The Reagon administration began firing the 11, 359 air-traffic controllers that went on strike, violating the order he gave to return to work. This extreme but executive action caused air travel to be very slow for many months. Although these workers were government employees they were still able to strike because they had enough people behind them to not just be thrown off to the side.

The constant battle between workers and the government. These air-traffic control workers were fighting for their conditions, wages, and also the hours they were working.