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Featured Article: Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was an association of labor unions active from 1938 to 1955. See more »
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was an association of labor unions active from 1938 to 1955.
See more »Guild
Guild, gihld, in the Middle Ages, was an association of people with a common interest.
See more »Homestead Strike
Homestead Strike of 1892 showed the power of American big business and was a major defeat for the union movement.
See more »Indentured labor
Indentured labor was a form of labor in which people worked without wages in exchange for passage to another country or location.
See more »Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was a radical labor organization founded in 1905 to oppose the conservative policies of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
See more »Knights of Labor
Knights of Labor was one of the most important early labor organizations in America.
See more »Molly Maguires
Molly Maguires was the popular name for members of a secret society of immigrant Irish coal miners in the United States.
See more »Peonage
Peonage, PEE uh nihj, is a system of forced labor in which the peon (laborer) is forced to work in payment of a debt.
See more »Pullman Strike
Pullman Strike, also called the Chicago Strike, was a violent labor dispute that took place in 1894.
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