https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx Made with ♥ en-us 2021-11-29 17:25:54 UTC 2025-12-18 00:58:29 UTC hello@padlet.com mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918539103 significance: emphasizes a growing divide in the city between New York's prosperous merchant class and a quickly growing lower class of newly arrived Irish immigrants 
summary: 1837 was a food riot that broke out in New York City in February. 700 building were destroyed and a loss of 20 million. It was the residents way in responding to poor weather, harvests, and the withholding by the police and public grain supplies.

]]> 2021-11-29 17:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918539103 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918539681 significance: Created the first union of working women in the American history
summary: young female workers who came to work in industrial corporation in Massachusetts. They were daughters of the New England farmers. When working in the mills it allowed the women to earn their money for the first time. The Lowell girls were the first union to work. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918539681 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918540355 significance: The first major labor organization in the United States 
summary: these knights organized unskilled and skilled workers, campaigned for a eight hour workday. The knights had a motto of "An injury to one is the concern of all." Brought all wager earners together to put up a fight about wage slavery. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918540355 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918540949 significance: Created panic in Chicago and increased anti-labor and anti-immigrant sentiment and suspicion of the international anarchist movement 
summary: Was a violent confrontation between police and labor protesters in Chicago in 1886. became a symbol of the international struggle for workers rights. after the riots the public view divided. Some were viewed as martyrs. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918540949 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918541415 significance: Granted 160 acres of free land of claimants allowing nearly any man or women a "fair chance"
summary: encouraged western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of land in exchange for a nominal filing fee. It was a five year requirement of residents before receiving the title to the land and the settlers had to be a US citizen ]]> 2021-11-29 17:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918541415 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918541945 significance: Brought Eugene Debs national attention led directly to his conversation to socialism. 
summary: Americans began a quest for achieving more relations between capital and labor while protecting the public interest. It was a mob burning freight cars in Chicago. Pullman laid off hundreds of employees and cut wages for many of the remaining workers. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918541945 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918542832 significance: served as the preeminent national labor organization until the great depression unskilled workers finally came together.
summary: Had a purpose to organize skilled workers into national unions consisting of others in the same trade. It was no political it aimed at shorts hours and higher wages and better working conditions. They failed in their efforts to stop child labor. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918542832 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918543584 significance: became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist 
summary: was self proclaimed "hell raiser" in the cause of economic justice. A US attorney labeled her to be "the most dangerous women in America." She was the organizer for the first two decades in the 29th century for mine workers. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918543584 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918544820 significance: killed 146 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women. Development of occupational safety and health standards. 
summary: there were 600 workers at the factory when a fire began in a rag bin. The manager attempted to use a fire hose to put the fire out, but failed. The hose rusted and the valve rusted shut. Isaac Harris and Max Blanck were acquitted for manslaughter and were brought back to court for civil suits. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918544820 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918545680 significance: largest labor uprising in the United States history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. 
summary: Thousands of miners clashed with sheriff's deputies in the largest insurrection since the civil war. For five days and over 12 miles the sheriff's men fought the miners. They dropped homemade bombs from planes and strafing the hillsides with machine gun fire. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918545680 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918549195 significance: established the legal right of most workers to join labor unions and to bargain collectively with their employees.  
summary: This bill was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt and it established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector. it permits a large sector of employees to choose to associate themselves with a particular trade union. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918549195 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918552278 significance: established minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private section.
summary: applies to all businesses which are national system employers. it is a national system employer if it is an incorporated entity. This act is the right to engage in industrial activities. only applies to the employers whose annual sales total of 500,000 or more or who are engaged in interstate commerce.

]]> 2021-11-29 17:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918552278 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918553157 significance: prohibited certain union practices and requires disclosure of certain financial and political activities by unions.  
summary: outlawed discrimination against nonunion members by union hiring halls and closed shops. It removed the ability of unions to strike in a number of ways. It categorized the following as unfair labor practices. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918553157 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918554432 significance: encourages FAA air traffic employees to report safety event and safety concerns
summary: following the workers refusal to go back to work, they fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order and banned then from federal service for life. they make a annual wage of 130,420 in the year of 2020. ]]> 2021-11-29 17:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918554432 mkirby12 https://padlet.com/mkirby12/d42f90ep4ukn2ipx/wish/1918556098 significance: founder of the United Farm Workers Association in 1962
summary: he established the minimum wage standards, wage contracts, safer working conditions, child labor reform, and advancement in civil rights for Chicanos and other farm workers. He employed non violent means to bring attention to the plight of farm workers. He led marches, called for boycotts and went on several hunger strikes. he brought awareness to the dangers of worker's health.

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