Section 5
Labor and Domestic Tensions
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The original citywide labor federations grew into many national-scale labor organizations that fought for workplace rights, wages, working hours, political expression, labor laws, and other working conditions.
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Anarchists in the United States, who fought within and alongside labor unions for workers rights, helped stage a demonstration in Chicago in 1886 that resulted in a deadly bombing.
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Socialism and labor were interconnected movements during the Gilded Age.
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In 1870, women were 15 percent of the total workforce, primarily assuming roles as factory workers, teachers, dressmakers, milliners, and tailors.
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During the Industrial Revolution, children as young as four were employed in factories with dangerous, and often fatal, working conditions.
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Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, also called "The Great Upheaval," spanned 45 days and four states and caused the deaths of many strikers.
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The Homestead Strike of 1892 was organized and purposeful; it was the second-largest labor dispute in U.S. history.
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The Cripple Creek Miners' Strike of 1894 resulted in a victory for the union, due to the support of Populist Party governor, Davis Waite.