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History chapter 19
lesson 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Frederick W. Taylor | ,published a popular book called The Principles of Scientific Management, encouraged managers to view workers as interchangeable parts of the production process. |
| What did Taylor influence | to pay less attention to working conditions |
| Knights of Labor | first national labor union, had skilled and unskilled workers. |
| What did the Knights of Labor push for | 8hour workday, equal right for equal pay, and end to child labor |
| Specialization | workers repeating a single step again and again |
| Terence V. Powderly | leader of knights, made first national labor union in USA |
| American Federation of Labor (AFL) | group that organized individual national unions of skilled workers, early labor union |
| Samuel Gompers | Leder of AFL |
| Collective Bargaining | all workers acting collectively, together workers acted to get better wages or working conditions |
| Mary Harris Jones | worked fro better conditions for miners |
| What did Mary Harris Jones organize? | strikes and helped educate workers |
| Haymarket Riot | a union protest in Chicago where strikers fought with police. Resulted in a bomb being thrown and shots fired. many injured and killed |
| Homestead Strike | violent 1892 strike at Carnegie's Homestead steel factory that ended with state militia |
| What did the people of the Homestead Strike go on strike for ? | they protested the plan to buy new machinery and cut jobs |
| Pullman Strike | strike of Pullman railroad workers that stopped traffic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs |
| Who sent troops to stop the Pullman Strike? | President Grover Cleveland |