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13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery except as punishment for crimes. Passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865 -
Great Southwest Railroad Strike
The great Southwest railroad strike of 1886 was a labor union strike against the Missouri and Union Pacific railroads. This historic, although unsuccessful, strike included more than 200,000 railroad workers in the Southwest United States.It was pinoeered by John Gould. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot began as a peaceful rally and was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886. It was inspired in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day, as workers were angered at the murder of several men. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman StrikeIt pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and theUnited States federal government under President Grover Cleveland. This nationwide railroad strike started on May 11, 1894. -
Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire pf 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York, and one of the deadliest in US history. It killed about 146 women, as they were locked inside the factory so that they could not take breaks. -
Fair Labor Standards of 1935
The textile workers' strike of 1934 (whcih lasted twenty-one days) involved 400,000 textile workers from New England, Mid-Atlantic states and Southern states and was the largest labor strike in the history of the United States at the time. The economic downturn it caused drove a number of manufacturers into bankruptcy, and the employers who survived reduced their labor force and increased the amount of work they gave their lasting employees. -
The Wagner Act
The Wangner Act is was initiated by Senator Wagner in the fall of 1934 as a labor disputes bill. This act eventually gave employees the right to form and join labor unions, and it established a system of "collective bargaining" between employers and employees to ensure fairness in the workplace. -
1930s General Motors Sit Down Strike
The 1936–1937 Flint sit-down strike against General Motors overturned the United States automotive industry by unionizing it. It turned the domestic businesses into major industries. -
The Fair Labor Standards act of 1938
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 changed the United States labor industry by introducing he forty-hour work week, establishing a national minimum wage, and guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs. Along with this, it attempted to combat the issue of child labor by imposing age limits in many fields. -
Steel Strike of 1959
The steel strike of 1959 was a union strike by the United Steelworkers of America against many big-time steel companies. The strike was sparked when the employers demanded that the unioon give up a clause that limited their abiloty to change the number of workers assigned to a task or the numbers of hours that employees worked. This, in tun, inspired several pieces of legislation put forth by former President Eisenhower.
