LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Workers Of The World, Broad Group, Cultural Movement
16 Oct 2017
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Exclusive approach of afl, american federation of labour. Is a converse of di erent unions (a collection of unions), not a union. Said you"ll only be good with leverage/ skill. Samuel gompers thinking: wants to represent craft unions and have them change to be more business like. Craft based if all trades would join afl, gompers would be the voice of labour . Organizing find the best professionals, hire them as sta and pay them well so they"re the key gures of the union. Consumerism need to move away from the independent ideal. For samuel gompers, this is consumerism (wages, bene ts. Not consumerism as in where your clothes were bought). Gompers talked about bread an butter unions = getting the best wages, bene ts and job security. Bread and butter unions also talked about long term workers and loyalty. Knights of labour big story in the 1880"s. Great upheaval prominent gure was terrence powderly.
