4 Industrial Age 1865-1914 Industrial Workers Trade Union

The Knights of Labor 1869

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) 1881

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 1905

The first important labor organization in the United States which was founded in 1869 as a secret society of garment (sewing) workers in Philadelphia.

Prominent labor union that represented skilled trade and used collective bargaining as a means to resolve disputes.

A labor union formed by angry workers in Chicago, Illinois in 1905, who believed that the AFL was not doing enough to help them.

Workers from the McCormick Harvester company protested the killing of strikers, a bomb went off, and chaos ensued.

Workers at Carnegie's steel plant had wages cut for joining a union. A battle took place and all union members lost their jobs.

Workers go on strike over cut wages. The American Railway Association joined in and shut down US rail traffic.