ILRLR 1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Samuel Gompers, Pullman Strike, Slaughter-House Cases

• School: Cornell University
• Department: ILR Labor Relations, Law and History
• Course: ILRLR 1100
• Professor: Elias

Document Summary

Remove bad people from society (sterilization, eugenics, etc. ) Samuel gompers refused to support eugene debbs at the pullman strike. Rise of the cash economy devalued the household economy (boydston reading) Did not want to industrialize beyond agrarianism. Used slave labor, wouldn"t let the market determine wages at all. Women were striking from debt due to sewing machines, shows they were not fully detached from the family economy. Liberty of contract was from the slaughterhouse cases, dealt with the 14th. City of new orleans tried to regulate where butchers did their business, had law stating butchers had to operate in one corner of the city. Lochner case was based on this, struck down law regulating working hours on the basis that it intervened in an employment contract. Haymarket square riots marked the end of the knights of labor. Increased demand for land moved the us towards greater reliance on cash.