Insurgent Labor Outline

Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name September 19, 2019 Insurgent Labor Outline 1 Introduction 1 Description of Labor Relations from 1905 – 1922 1 Historical and Key Concepts 1 Working classes 2 ‘Business Unionism’ 3 ‘social parasites’ 4 ‘beasts of prey’ (Eugene Debs) 5 ‘The Wages of Whiteness’ Racism in labor relations 2 Mass Production Industry and the Modern American Labor Movement 2 Birth of the Modern American Labor Movement 2 ‘1905 to beginning of WWI’ 3 Innovations in labor relations 3 Creation of Labor Unions 6 i.e., United Mines Workers (UMW) 4 ‘Small focus strikes’ 5 Other effects of Labor movements 7 i.e., Pullman strike 4 Resistance of Enterprises 6 Effects 8 Inclusion of state militia, local police, and private detective agencies 9 Reorganization of workplaces 10 Emphasis on work efficiency Imposition of production quotas and shifted wages 3 Trade Unions and Industrial Unionism 5 The failure of craft unionism 6 Distinction between employees 7 Skilled vs. unsk...