Unionization/Government Regulation (1 gen 1862 anni – 1 gen 1898 anni)

Descrizione:

Problems for farmers:
- falling prices
- unfair railroad business practices
- high cost of machinery
- tight money supply
- high tariffs

Grange Movement
- organized social and educational activities

Goals:
- government regulation and ownership of
business

UNIONS
Challenges
- unskilled vs. skilled workers
- ethnic/racial division
- hostility from corporations
- scabs, court injunctions, yellow-dog
contracts, blacklist, public opinion (radicals)
Unions
- National Labor Union (1866)
- Knights of Labor (1869)
- American Federation of Labor (1886)

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