Summary Of Michael K. Honey's Southern Labor

With the dawning of September 1863, this month would prove to be that catalyst for the breakout and beginning of heinous and destructive assaults against all comers across those many districts. Moreover, up to this period, Ben Hall had been conducting indiscriminate hold-ups and harassments, however, Hall now threw himself fully into the

The Knights of Labor, founded by Terence Powderly and Uriah Stephens in 1869, helped create a union contract with Carnegie’s Braddock Mill. While the Knights of Labor were trying to have broad social reform around the country, they created a lockout in the Braddock Mill. Workers like Kratcha did not care as much about the union’s goals, instead they wanted the mills to be open so that they could earn money (25). Large business owners, like Carnegie, tried, and usually succeed, at breaking strikes and unions in their mills. In Homestead and Braddock, Kratcha experienced the effects of strikes, and they were not positive.

When he became older, he wanted to help the farm workers with their hardships, creating a union to help fight for their rights under the name United Farm Workers. As it states, “Under

Before the structured labor society that we live in today, America was a very different working world; one plagued with injustice and grievances from workers across the job sectors. Two organizations, the Knights of Labor and later the American Federation of Labor acted as activists for reform and demanded better standards for working, living, and life for workers. Their strategies and success in achieving their goals were as different as the organizations themselves. Coming from a time of segregation and social divide, the Knights of Labor stood out as one of the most accepting labor unions of the age, which largely accounted for their membership to reach almost 800,000 members during its peak. All workers in a trade were included, regardless of their skill level.

The following year, he led a 340-miles march along the California coast in order to gain state government to unite the farm workers together. During the time, they also got involve in conflict with other organizations as well. But in the end they manage to sign a three-year contract for pay raise with the grape growers. Their achievement was not only for the Mexican-American workers but for all the migrant workers in the nation. Although during the time, Chavez’s organization got into a conflict with another organization called Teamsters over the jurisdiction.

The documentary “The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ struggle” gives the audience a small glimpse into the first ever successful organization lead by Cesar Chavez and his vision towards a better life for all farmworkers for generations to come. Viewers can also make a more profound connection of sympathy just by listening to family members of just how they lost everything back in Arizona including the farm and unfortunately had no other option except to migrate to for a better life. However, the State of California during the 1960’s was no promise land which was also immersed in unforgettable change. The Civil Rights movement of the South with the treatment of African-American community during the 60’s had eventually made its way out to the West Coast. The fight for Civil Rights took on a more profound struggle within the agricultural business of white farmers which was built upon the generations of cheap laborers ranging from the Chinese, Filipinos, Okies, Mexicans, and Chicanos.

In Mark Bauerlein’s, Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906, the political and social events leading to the riot are analyzed. The center of events took place around and inside Atlanta in the early 1900’s. The riot broke out on the evening of September 22, 1906. Prior to the riot in 1906, elections were being held for a new Georgia governor. Bauerlein organizes his book in chronological order to effectively recount the events that led to the riot.

The workers gather to listen to several speakers over the five days near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company among those giving the speaks there was both a pled from those who discouraged violence and encourage the crowd to join together against the companies; however, this was also a pled from those who urge worked to take action of violent revolution. The Haymarket Riot turned into a violent event resulting in a controversy trial that supported the discrimination against union members. Perhaps the greatest lasting effect of the riot was that it created a widespread revulsion against union, which caused membership to decline and reduce union influence; because unions became lined to radical ideas and violence in the popular mind. (Avial,2011)

If Cesar would not have created the union then there would be no support for farm workers to have rights. During this time period many reporters became skeptical about this because many people in the past had tried this before but failed. Cesar had some supporters who believed that he could do it his

Among the many issues they wanted resolved, some were like many other workers’ union goals. They were fighting

“Despite the 1875 Civil Rights Act banning discrimination on the basis of race, creed, or color in theaters, hotels, transports, and other public accommodations, several railroad companies defied the act and continued to segregate their passengers (Baker, 2012).” After refusing, the conductor forcibly removed Wells from the train as white passengers

In the text his main purpose was to persuade farm workers not to use violence to get their (farm workers) demands met, and boycott grape farms. In doing so the farmers would have to give in to demands of labor leaders. However, due to the struggles of others Throughout his speech there is a determined and insistent tone.

Throughout the development of the colonies in America, slave trade grew to be a significant source of labor in primarily southern plantations within the late seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. During the era, with slaves being condemned to be considered socially inferior by law, and the increase in demand of goods such as rice and indigo, the slave labor force became a notable source for southern plantations in the eighteenth century. Slaves and people of color had always been considered to be socially inferior even before the colonies existed. With a sense of paternalism in Great Britain, people have always believed that those considered slaves,or servants rather, were second class citizens, and these people needed to be suppressed for their own best interests.

Problems like these angered the workers and caused labor unions to form. Some labor unions included the American Federation of Labor (AFL), or the Knights of Labor (KoL), which were the first two industrial labor unions. The industrial unions did more physical rebellion such as strikes or walk-outs, but both the industrial unions and the farmer unions were formed due to the people’s

Stokely Carmichael urged the people to understand that everyone had importance  in America not just white men.   This convinced many people to have a change of thought. Some people realized that it wasn't fair but not all. Many fights broke out when whites didn’t change their minds.