Big Business and Labor terms Part 2  Samuel Gompers  American Federation of Labor (AFL)  Eugene V. Debs  Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)  Mary.

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Big Business and Labor terms Part 2  Samuel Gompers  American Federation of Labor (AFL)  Eugene V. Debs  Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)  Mary Harris Jones

Labor Unions  National Labor Union: (1866)  2 types of Unions  Craft Unions  American Federation of Labor (AFL) (1886)  Collective Bargaining:  Samuel Gompers -Industrial Unions Eugene Debs: Socialism

Protesting/Violent Strikes  Haymarket Riot (May 4, 1886)  3,000 protesters (Labor Unionists) in Haymarket Square (McCormick Harvester Plant in Chicago  What happened??  video video

Women organize  Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire  March 25, 1911  New York City  8 th, 9 th and 10 th floor fire  video video Aftermath:

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