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Re: U.S.A Trade Union History

jmorris84 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:45:26 GMT

Deist:

I have found an article that goes into some detail about several notable events in United States Labor Union history. This article completely takes the gloss off of the typical cookie cutter story that is told about the Haymarket Riot, The Homestead Strike and The Pullman Strike.

Read this article and it totally shows that these events were not about starving, noble workers but about what were upper middle class workers of their time that demanded more pay by use of violence:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj10n1/cj10n1-10.pdf

This article leaves out that The Pullman Strike had a racial overtone to keep African Americans out of the market.

Thank you for the link. That was a very good read!

Re: U.S.A Trade Union History

Knight_of_BAAWA — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:10:34 GMT

Same with minimum wage laws of any sort in order to keep out the minorities "unskilled".

Re: U.S.A Trade Union History

Wanderer — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:52:29 GMT

I've also heard that unions were some of the leading voices for the child labor ban so they would have less competition.

U.S.A Trade Union History

Deist — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:07:15 GMT

I have found an article that goes into some detail about several notable events in United States Labor Union history. This article completely takes the gloss off of the typical cookie cutter story that is told about the Haymarket Riot, The Homestead Strike and The Pullman Strike.

Read this article and it totally shows that these events were not about starving, noble workers but about what were upper middle class workers of their time that demanded more pay by use of violence:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj10n1/cj10n1-10.pdf

This article leaves out that The Pullman Strike had a racial overtone to keep African Americans out of the market.