Workers hoped that labor unions would help them to receive better working conditions, increased wageas, and a reduced workload.
When labor unions started to develop, many workers faced unfair working conditions. This included roughly an 80-100 hour work week, low wages, and not safety standards at their potentially dangerous jobs. Since there was very little government intervention in business during this era, workers hoped that the creation of these labor unions would help to solve some of their work problems. However, in the beginning of this labor movement, unions and business owners/managers often fought. In several different instances, these confrontations turned violent.
Answer:In the next 50 years, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford became engines of capitalism, building transportation, oil, steel, financial industry, and automobile manufacturing in a way that changed the world, and making the United States a world
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are probably talking about Chinese immigrants in the United States, who began
immigrating into the country in 18th century. Thousands of Chinese workers
went to the California Gold Rush looking for work, while thousands more were
hired to build the First Transcontinental Railroad. Treatment of Chinese
immigrants are particularly harsh since they become targets for populist
politicians and white laborers. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed
which barred practically all Chinese from entering the United States for 10
years.</span>
They were not allowed to leave and so they had to stay
