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A TALAVERA TIMELINE SM1
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31 janv. 2018
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Les événements
Born in Scotland to penniless parents, Andrew Carnegie came to this country
Andrew carnage left his job at the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Carnegie Steel Company manufactured more steel than all the factories in Great Britain
Andrew carnage sold his business.
J. P. Morgan, United States Steel it became the world’s largest business.
Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company of Ohio processed two or three percent of the country’s crude oil.
Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company of Ohio controlled 90 percent of the refining business.
Sherman Antitrust Act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.
An average of 675 laborers were killed in work-related accidents each week.
Women earned an average of $267 a year, nearly half of men’s average pay of $498.
William H. Sylvis formed The first large-scale national organization of laborers, the National Labor Union (NLU).
NLU persuaded Congress to legalize an eight-hour day for government workers.
Uriah Stephens focused his attention on individual workers and organized the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor.
Knights of Labor had gained about 700,000 members.
Jewish immigrant Samuel Gompers led the Cigar Makers’ International Union to join other craft unions.
The new union (The American Railway Union (ARU)) won a strike for higher wages. Within two months, its membership climbed to 150,000, dwarfing the 90,000 enrolled in the four skilled railroad brotherhoods.
A group of radical unionists and socialists in Chicago organized the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or the Wobblies.
1,000 Japanese and Mexican workers organized a successful strike in the sugar-beet fields of Ventura County, California.
Workers for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) struck to protest their second wage cut in two months.
Périodes
The number of women working for wages doubled, from 4 million to more than 8 million. Twenty percent of the boys and 10 percent of the girls under age 15 some as young as five years old held full-time jobs.
The average weekly wages in unionized industries rose from $17.50 to $24, and the average workweek fell from almost 54.5 hours to just under 49 hours.
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