Looking at it today, working conditions were not as cool and comfortable as they are now. Well, you might ask how have they changed, in short, they were not as cozy as they are now. Labor movements worked hard and formidable in order to change and improve the working conditions, and as time passes the working condition will keep on improving time after time. Workers at this time were joining unions to go against the working condition they are in, but mostly to fight the wage system. Employers made workers sign sheets that states that they will not join a union and if they do so their job will be a threat of being lost. The period of the Gilded Age, the age between the period of 1860 and 1900 was a time of industrialized improvements. Yet, to be optimistic and think that the time would have improved the working condition, well we could not have been wrong. Instead of improving them, the working condition became worse. In the Nineteen Centuries, the time of labor was harsh and unbearable. …show more content…
what made this movement different from any other movement at the time was because of its diverse and multi-cultural background of its members. It was known “As the largest and most representative labor body until it's time” he goes on claiming that it's “...probably the single largest unionized movement in western world during the 1880s”(The New Labor History…) having been one of the largest labor movement at its time, it goes to show the relevance and importance that people had toward it. The movement was originated as a secret organization meant to protect its members from employer retaliation and their enemy was the wag system. Furthermore, the idea that the knights of labor proclaimed is what drove to its massive growth in 1886. The claimed that the wage system proposed is what drove so many individuals to join and be part of the