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Trade Unions
US Civil Rights
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Number of working hours a day in 1865 | 12 hours |
| Policy which supported employers | Laissez-faire |
| Increase in factory workers from 1860 to 1900 | 885,000 to 3.2 million |
| Case which blocked a reduction of working hours | 1905 Lochner case |
| What unions traded with the NWLB for a 10 hour day | Right to strike |
| Popular practice during 1920s | Welfare capitalism |
| Number of workers covered by FDR's NRA by 1934 | 23 million |
| Increase in white collar jobs from 1960 to 1980 | 30 million to 50 million |
| President who passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963 | Kennedy |
| Act which helped workers over 40 | Age Discrimination in Employment Act |
| Number of apprenticeships given to black people | 3% |
| Percentage of workforce made up of unskilled women in 1890 | 35% |
| Economic growth between 1914 and 1918 | 35% |
| Wage increase during the First World War | 20% |
| Minimum weekly wage created by 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act | $25 |
| Increase in wages during the Second World War | 70% |
| Number of Americans in poverty in 1960 | 35 million |
| How much union members earned in comparison to non-union workers | 20% more |
| President who increased the minimum wage in 1979 | Carter |
| Source of immigrants who arrived in the 1980s | Asia |
| Union destroyed by the Haymarket Affair | KOL |
| Membership of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s | 700,000 |
| Membership of the AFL by 1914 | 2 million |
| President whose election was aided by AFL support | Woodrow Wilson |
| Two radical trade unions | The Wobblies and the Molly Maguires |
| Strike organised by the AA | Homestead Strike 1892 |
| Board which recognised unions during World War One | National War Labor Board |
| Growth of union membership between 1916 and 1920 | 2.7 million to 5 million |
| Contracts which stopped workers joining unions | Yellow Dog contracts |
| Rate of unemployment in 1933 | 25% |
| Act which recognised unions' right to collective bargaining | Wagner Act 1933 |
| Increase in union membership by 1938 | Three times higher |
| Year that Ford recognises union | 1941 |
| Union membership during World War Two | 15 million |
| Membership of CIO set up 1937 | 3.7 million |
| Act which purged CIO of a third of its members | Taft Hartley Act 1947 |
| Percentage of unionised workers in AFL-CIO after 1955 merger | 85% |
| Percentage of workforce unionised by 1960 | 31% |
| Percenateg of workforce unionised in 1992 | 12% |
| President who intervened during the Pullman Strike 1894 | Cleveland |
| Percentage of workers in a union by 1933 | 10% |
| Act which upheld injunctions until 1932 | Sherman Anti Trust Act |
| Fear which arose after the First World War | Red Scare |
| Number of strikes in 1919 | Over 3000 |
| Act used to crush the Wobblies | 1917 Espionage Act |
| Act to give workers the right to strike which was crushed by the courts | Clayton Act 1921 |
| Successful black trade union which was recognised by Pullman company in 1935 | BSCP |
| Act which made it illegal to strike during World War Two | Smith Connally Act 1943 |
| President who crushed the 1981 PATCO strike | Reagan |
| Number of strikes between 1881 and 1905 | 37,000 |
| Increase in the US GNP between 1950 and 1960 | $318 billion to $488 billion |
| Decrease in trade union membership in industry during the 1950s | 50% |
| Number of strikes involving more than 1000 workers in 1992 | 35 |
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