LABOR REFORM

At the turn of the century, what problems existed for laborers?

Review Labor Conditions

During the period known as the Progressive Era, how were the concerns of workers addressed?
    Knights of Labor - Uriah Stephens
    http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/dir/883kol.html
    http://www.theholidayspot.com/laborday/k_of_L.htm
    American Federation of Labor - Samuel Gompers
    International Ladies Garment Workers Union - Rose Schneiderman
    http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/bus/A0825349.html

Famous Strikes
    Great Railroad Strike - 1877 http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb/Projects/Ambot/Archives/vignettes/economy/RR%20Strike%20of%201877.html
http://www.mobtown.org/archive/1877/summary.html
    Haymarket Riot, Chicago
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/haymarket.html
http://www.prairieghosts.com/haymarket.html
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/haymarket.htm
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/haymkmon.htm
    Homestead Pennsylvania Steel Strike
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4547/homestead.html
http://www.publassist.com/steel%20hist.html
http://www.iberia.vassar.edu/1896/strikes.html
    Coal Strike 1902 (Teddy Roosevelt)
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/coal/1902AnthraciteStrike/
http://www.lithuaniangenealogy.org/pa/tales/first.html
    Great Pullman Strike - Eugene Debs
    Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
http://www.yale.edu/yup/ENYC/triangle_shirtwaist.html
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/holding/aids/factory/history.htm

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