locking workers out of the factory until they agree to give in to management's demands strike over wage cuts/layoffs that led to the fed gov being called in to stop the strike mechanized reaper / steel plow / barbed wire / windmills railroad strike over cuts in workers' wages work stoppage intended to force an employer to respond to worker demands economy does better without government interference association of workers who joined together to protect worker welfare encouraging people to not buy/use a company product until the company gives in to worker deamdns invented telephone had >1000 patents (including the light bulb) 1890 law that attempted to prevent creation of monopolies discussions held between workers and employers over working conditions banking/finance robber baron larger pools of capital, wider geographic span, broader range of operations, revised role of ownership, new management methods united country, built by central pacific and union pacific, met at promontory point, utah attempt for fed gov to be able to supervise, regulate railroad companie arrangement of equipment and workers so work passes in a direct line until product is complete oil robber baron when a company has complete control over a product/service 12 hour days for 6-7 days per week, unsafe, dirty, low wages, children working federation of different unions, began in 1886 steel robber baron first union established, 1869, originally a secret fraternal order book by carnegie arguing that wealthy have an obligation to give back to society locking workers out of the factory until they agree to give in to management's demands strike over wage cuts/layoffs that led to the fed gov being called in to stop the strike mechanized reaper / steel plow / barbed wire / windmills railroad strike over cuts in workers' wages work stoppage intended to force an employer to respond to worker demands economy does better without government interference association of workers who joined together to protect worker welfare encouraging people to not buy/use a company product until the company gives in to worker deamdns invented telephone had >1000 patents (including the light bulb) 1890 law that attempted to prevent creation of monopolies discussions held between workers and employers over working conditions banking/finance robber baron larger pools of capital, wider geographic span, broader range of operations, revised role of ownership, new management methods united country, built by central pacific and union pacific, met at promontory point, utah attempt for fed gov to be able to supervise, regulate railroad companie arrangement of equipment and workers so work passes in a direct line until product is complete oil robber baron when a company has complete control over a product/service 12 hour days for 6-7 days per week, unsafe, dirty, low wages, children working federation of different unions, began in 1886 steel robber baron first union established, 1869, originally a secret fraternal order book by carnegie arguing that wealthy have an obligation to give back to society
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locking workers out of the factory until they agree to give in to management's demands
strike over wage cuts/layoffs that led to the fed gov being called in to stop the strike
mechanized reaper / steel plow / barbed wire / windmills
railroad strike over cuts in workers' wages
work stoppage intended to force an employer to respond to worker demands
economy does better without government interference
association of workers who joined together to protect worker welfare
encouraging people to not buy/use a company product until the company gives in to worker deamdns
invented telephone
had >1000 patents (including the light bulb)
1890 law that attempted to prevent creation of monopolies
discussions held between workers and employers over working conditions
banking/finance robber baron
larger pools of capital, wider geographic span, broader range of operations, revised role of ownership, new management methods
united country, built by central pacific and union pacific, met at promontory point, utah
attempt for fed gov to be able to supervise, regulate railroad companie
arrangement of equipment and workers so work passes in a direct line until product is complete
oil robber baron
when a company has complete control over a product/service
12 hour days for 6-7 days per week, unsafe, dirty, low wages, children working
federation of different unions, began in 1886
steel robber baron
first union established, 1869, originally a secret fraternal order
book by carnegie arguing that wealthy have an obligation to give back to society
