Question

Explain the reasons that labor organizations developed after the Civil War. Then, evaluate at least two strategies that organized labor used to help workers, citing specific examples of their successes or failures

Answer 1

Reasons for the growth of the labor movement includes low wages, long hours, poor and hazardous working conditions, and child labor. To combat these conditions, workers slowed their work pace, and they organized and staged strikes, which were sometimes successful.
The Knights of Labor strike in 1885 forced the Missouri Pacific Railroad to restore wages it had previously cut. Some strikes resulted in the death of some workers, such as the McCormick Harvester strike in Chicago. The government usually sided with factory owners.