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Cesar Chavez
Labor organizer who won rights for America's farmworkers
Eugene V. Debs
Labor Leader, Socialist Presidential Candidate, and Prisoner of Conscience, 1855–1926
Mother Jones
The fearless organizer once called "the most dangerous woman in America"
Samuel Gompers
Founder of the American Federation of Labor and father of the U.S. labor movement
Upton Sinclair
Muckraking Author of The Jungle Who Accidentally Reformed the Food Supply, 1878–1968
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Chicago
The city that built itself from nothing, burned down, rebuilt, and became America's most American city
Detroit
The Motor City that built America's middle class and paid the price of its collapse
Seattle
Gateway to Alaska, birthplace of Boeing, and capital of the Pacific Northwest
Events
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Haymarket Affair
The 1886 bombing that defined — and distorted — the American labor movement
Homestead Strike
The 1892 labor battle that broke the steel union and defined Gilded Age industrial conflict
NAFTA
The 1994 trade pact that bound North America together
Panic of 1873
The railroad collapse that triggered the Long Depression and ended Reconstruction
Panic of 1893
The worst depression before the 1930s — and the crisis that made William Jennings Bryan
Rosie the Riveter
The wartime icon of the women who built America's arsenal
The Ford Model T
The car — and the assembly line — that put America on wheels
The Great Depression
The worst economic catastrophe in American history
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The first nationwide strike — and the violent dawn of the American labor war
The Pullman Strike
The 1894 railroad shutdown that sent a labor leader to prison — and radicalized him
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The 1911 factory disaster that transformed American labor law
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The Fair Labor Standards Act
The 1938 law that set the minimum wage, the 40-hour week, and ended child labor
The Wagner Act
The 1935 law that gave American workers the right to organize
Concepts
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General Motors
The company that out-organized Ford and ruled the American road
The Industrial Revolution
The transformation of American labor, production, and daily life, 1820–1900
The Knights of Labor
The first great American union — and its rise and sudden fall
The Labor Movement
The century-long fight by American workers for fair wages, safe conditions, and human dignity
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