Labor Unions and Labor Management: 1900-1930
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some times used their powers to achieve unjustifiable ends, at employers' or public's expense. But, although such excesses might illustrate the need for enlightened leadership or perhaps for some mild legal reforms, their conclusion on balance is that big labor was a necessary offset to big businesses. Knowing and agreeing to the outcome -big labor -in turn informs most histories of the evolution of unions. The story is that, after misguided efforts to unite all laborers into protective societies (such as the Mechanics Union of Trade Association of Philadelphia, circa 1827), into cooperative escapes (such as Brook Farm), and into idealistic political movements (as represented by the Knights of Labor), Samuel Gompers discovered what was needed, business unionism. Business unionism is unionism with only one ideal, directly improved working conditions for each member. Its principal focus is the job site and its principal means are collective job representation and job action, although means to social (political) action are maintained. The AFL'S business unionism benefitted many but, as time passed and mass production industry grew, not enough. Thankfully, because of the far-seeing eyes of John L. Lewis and cofforts at the CIO, the benefits of unionism were made available to unskilled American workers. Unions
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