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Corporatist Union Philosophy ANS✔✔ Corporatist philosophy seeks
essentially equal roles for management and labor with government
overseeing the relationship
Uplift unionism ANS✔✔ Uplift unionism is concerned with the betterment of
union members. While it is somewhat appealing to US workers, most unions
embrace business unionism.
Revolutionary unionism ANS✔✔ Revolutionary unionism seeks radical change
in society, for example the overthrow of capitalism. It is not typical in the US.
(T1, Q2) It is not typical in the U.S.
Business Unionism ANS✔✔ Business unionism attends primarily to wages,
hours, and terms and conditions of employment (T1, Q2) This type of
unionism is most often endorsed by American labor unions
Predatory Unionism ANS✔✔ Predatory unionism occurs when a union's
priority is to enhance itself at the expense of the workers it represents. (T1,
Q4) It is not typical in the US
Terence V. Powderly ANS✔✔ Leader of KOL from 1879 to 1893. Opposed
immigration on the basis that they took jobs. Worked to remove papal
sanctions against Catholics that joined unions. Disliked strikes as a tactic.
Worked to get the 8 hour work day.
Samuel Gompers ANS✔✔ Gompers founded the American Federation of
Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894
, and from 1895 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the
different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize
jurisdictional battles. He promoted thorough organization and collective
bargaining to secure shorter hours and higher wages, the first essential
steps, he believed, to emancipating labor. He also encouraged the AFL to
take political action to "elect their friends" and "defeat their enemies".[2]
During World War I, Gompers and the AFL openly supported the war effort,
[3][4] attempting to avoid strikes and boost morale while raising wage rates
and expanding membership.
Homestead Incident ANS✔✔ The Homestead Incident involved workers
picketing and conducting surveillance around the Carnegie Steel Works
plant, a violent confrontation between Pinkerton guards and townspeople,
and a call-up of the National Guard. Ironically, Andrew Carnegie was
sympathetic to unions' desires, but the result of the incident was a dramatic
drop in union membership in the steel industry.
Pullman Strike ANS✔✔ When the railroad employers hired strikebreakers and
got a labor injunction prohibiting the strikers from interfering with the
operation of the trains They burned hundreds of railroad cars. Seven
hundred mostly older, mostly empty railroad cars were burned on July 7,
1894. Negotiations did not resume in response to these actions. The strike
was broken when its leader, Eugene Debs, was convicted and jailed for
interfering with the federal mail.
William "Big Bill" Haywood ANS✔✔ William Dudley Haywood (February 4,
1869 - May 18, 1928), better known as "Big Bill" Haywood, was a founding
member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a
member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of America. During
the first two decades of the 20th century, he was involved in several
important labor battles, including the Colorado Labor Wars, the Lawrence
Textile Strike, and other textile strikes in Massachusetts and New
Jersey.Haywood was an advocate of industrial unionism,[1] a labor
philosophy that favors organizing all workers in an industry under one union,
regardless of the specific trade or skill level; this was in contrast to the craft
unions that were prevalent at the time, such as the AFL.[2]
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