Unionization in the Late 19th Century

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"During the period following the Civil War in 1865 and before the "closing of the frontier" described by historian Frederick Jackson Turner at the turn-of-the-century, the United States of America experienced a burst of expansive growth almost unparalleled in history (Degler, 1970, p. 237). Within this brief window of time - a generation's average lifespan for the period, in fact - the fledgling nation which was only to celebrate its first centennial in 1876 was transformed from a largely agrarian society into an industrialized, multi-ethnic entity which no longer fit the standard categorizations established by its original western European models. It is within that context that the American labor movement as we recognize it today was born.


There had been organized labor unions prior to the Civil..."

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