The Gilded Age: Labor Unions and Working Conditions

Child Laborers

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AFL’s tool against Company Owners

Union Tools

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The Union Label

Company Tools against Unions

Company Tools

quote: Joel I. Seidman, The Yellow Dog Contract, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1932, Ch. 1, pp.11-38image: Microsoft Office clip art

“This agreement has been well named. It is yellow dog for sure. It reduces to the level of a yellow dog any man that signs it, for he signs away every right he possesses under the Constitution and laws of the land and makes himself the truckling, helpless slave of the employer.“

-United Mine Workers’ Journal Yellow Dog

Contracts

Lock outs

Company Tools

• strikebreakers

Union families confront strikebreakers guarded by Pinkerton detectives in Buchtel, Ohio in 1884. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress LC-USZ62-118122.

Strikebreakers