https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1 By: Rishik Bijjala en-us 2021-11-29 17:26:05 UTC 2026-01-14 18:23:53 UTC hello@padlet.com rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1918561186 The flour riot of 1837 was a food riot that broke out in New York City in February 1837. This violent civil disturbance grew out of a public meeting to protest runaway prices, as hungry workers plundered private storerooms filled with sacks of hoarded flour.

The Significance of the Flour Riots is that now food is more evenly given through supermarkets and grocery shops and to control the inflation for everyone to get the product.]]> 2021-11-29 17:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1918561186 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1918565242 The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in industrial corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. They went on a strike because the wages were being cut and they worked for 70 hours a week to make little to no money.

The Significance of the Lowell Mill Girls is to give more pay and to get more freedom to people when they do their work and jobs and so now this was the first time woman were able to get jobs.]]> 2021-11-29 17:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1918565242 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1918594990 The Knights of Labor was a union founded in 1869. The union recruited workers in all fields, skilled and unskilled, which was an innovation that people with skills and people with less skills can work together to create. They were the most inclusive when it comes with people working it is skilled or unskilled.

The Significance is that Knights promoted the social and cultural uplift of the worker, and demanded the eight-hour day. Also they are Americas first national labor. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1918594990 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1920985593 At Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, 1886 a bomb was thrown at a group of policemen attempting to break up what had begun as a peaceful labor rally. The police responded with wild gunfire, killing several people in the crowd and injuring dozens more.

The Significance of the Haymarket Riots is that it increased anti-labor and anti-immigrant sentiment and suspicion of the international anarchist movement throughout the country.]]> 2021-11-30 17:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1920985593 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1920992075 The Homestead Strike was a violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The guards and workers exchanged gunfire, and at least three guards and seven workers were killed during the battle.

The Significance of the Homestead strike is that it represented a test of strength for the organized labor movement and resulted in the elimination of a prominent union of iron and steel workers.]]> 2021-11-30 17:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1920992075 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921012689 The Pullman Strike was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest in June-July 1894. Grover Cleveland used to dispatch federal troops to address the strike. Following an outbreak of deadly violence, the strike dwindled and rail traffic resumed.

The significance of the Pullman strike was that it led other Americans to begin a quest for achieving more harmonious relations between capital and labor while protecting the public interest.]]> 2021-11-30 17:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921012689 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921030838 The American Federation of Labor was a loose amalgamation of skilled craft unions, in contrast to other unions that admitted unskilled laborers. The AFL sought tangible economic gains, such as higher wages, shorter hours, and better conditions, in addition to staying out of politics.

The significance of the American Federation of Labor was that it served as the preeminent national labor organization until the Great Depression when unskilled workers finally came together. ]]> 2021-11-30 17:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921030838 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921046163 Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.

The significance of Mother Jones was that she helped establish the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905. Also she ended the child labor.]]> 2021-11-30 17:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921046163 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921051690 March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. The people were Trapped inside because the owners had locked the fire escape exit doors so workers jumped to their deaths. In a half an hour, the fire was over, and 146 of the 500 workers passed away.

The significance of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire is that we learned that there needs to be fire escapes and they have to to be open at all times in case a fire does ever occur. ]]> 2021-11-30 17:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921051690 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921063489 The miners' army was met at Blair Mountain by thousands of men who volunteered to fight with the Logan County sheriff, who was in the pay of the coal companies.

Significance of the Battle of Blair is that now they made rule that now they cant just back out and also if people work together they can get. ]]> 2021-11-30 17:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1921063489 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923336968 Wagner of New York, the Wagner Act established the federal government as the regulator and ultimate arbiter of labor relations. 

the significance of the act is that it prohibited employers from engaging in such unfair labor practices as setting up a company union and firing or otherwise discriminating against workers who organized or joined unions.]]> 2021-12-01 17:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923336968 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923337341 The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. It also prohibits employment of minors in oppressive child labor.

significance is that it made sure people had enough money for people to be able to purchase food and so the market will be higher.]]> 2021-12-01 17:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923337341 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923337715 The Taft-Hartley Act is a 1947 U.S. federal law that extended and modified the 1935 Wagner Act. It prohibits certain union practices and requires disclosure of certain financial and political activities by unions.

The significance is that it created the right to work  and so everyone is allowed to work and get money to support themselves and families.


]]> 2021-12-01 17:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923337715 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923338046 Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association and later the United Farm Workers of America and won important victories to raise pay and improve working conditions for farm workers in the late 1960s and 1970s.

He made sure people has enough money for people to get food on the table and a roof over their heads. ]]> 2021-12-01 17:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923338046 rbijjala https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923338394 On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, the Reagan administration fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order, and banned them from federal service for life.

The significance is that people will fight for this jobs because they need them in order for them to be happy and to get the things needed to survive.]]> 2021-12-01 17:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rbijjala/bfp72tz0nvzc90p1/wish/1923338394