The labor movement led attempts to stop child labor, as well as give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were retired or injured. Labor unions fought for fair wages, rational hours, and securer working conditions.
EXPLANATION:
The origins of the labor movement rest in the years of the formation of the American nation, when the free labor-wage market appeared in the craftsman trade at the end of the colonial period. The earliest documented strike happened in 1768 when the New York daily tailor protested a wage lessening. The Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (shoemakers)’s formation in Philadelphia in 1794 indicates the start of a sustainable union organization among American workers.
Since then, local craft unions have been breeding in cities, publishing "price" lists for their work, maintaining their trade-in diluted and cheap labor and, increasingly, demanding shorter working days on the surface of the Industrial Revolution. Thus, a work-conscious orientation quickly arisen, and afterward followed the main structural elements that characterize American trade unionism.
First, with the creation of the Mechanics’ Union of Trade Associations in 1827 in Philadelphia, central workers' bodies began to unite craft unions in one city, and then, with the formation of the International Typography Union in 1852, national unions started to unite local workers of the same trade from all over the Canada and United States (hence often called "international"). Even though the factory system emerged during these years, industrial workers played a small role in the initial development of trade unions. In the 19th century, trade unionism was primarily a movement of skilled workers.
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KEYWORDS : Labor Unions, Working Conditions. Labor movement
Subject : History
Class : 10-12
Sub-Chapter : Labor Unions
