Timeline of labour issues and events
The following is a timeline of labor history, organizing & conflicts, from the early 1600s to present.
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 The Burning of Jamestown by Howard Pyle depicts the burning of Jamestown, Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion (1676–77).
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1830s
 Frame-breakers, or Luddites, smashing a loom. Machine-breaking was criminalized by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as early as 1721, but as a result of continued opposition to mechanisation the Frame-Breaking Act 1812 made the death penalty available: see "Criminal damage in English law".
 Women in England mourning their lovers who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792
1840s
 1836 Constitution of the Lowell Factory Girls Association
Founding of the Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverbrüderung (General German Workers-Brotherhood) [13] 1850s
 Eureka Stockade Riot by John Black Henderson (1854).
1860s Labor Day Parade. Union St., N.Y, circa 1859–1899, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860
 February 6, 1869 Illustration from Harper's Weekly of the Colored National Labor Union convention in Washington, D.C. Store Web page states: "from Harper's Weekly magazine with 6 × 9 [inch] wood-engraved illustration of the National Colored Convention in Session at Washington, D.C."
 Uriah Stephens, pre-1882. Stephens (1821 - 1882) was a U.S. labor leader. He led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor in 1869, a more successful early national union.
1870s
 Photograph of Alexander Campbell "Father of the Greenback Party"
 The Socialist Labor Party of America does not seem to have used its distinctive arm-and-hammer logo until it appeared on the front page of The Workmen's Advocate in 1885.
1880s
 Thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Trades and Labour Congress, Hamilton, 1919.
 U.S. Marshals attempt to start a train during the strike in East St. Louis, Illinois.
 Representative Jeremiah M. Rusk
 Samuel Gompers
 Haymarket Flier  Haymarket Riot  The Haymarket Martyrs
 Union Labor Party campaign poster (1888)
1890s
 International Longshoremen's Union banner
 Pullman strikers outside Arcade Building in Pullman, Chicago. The Illinois National Guard can be seen guarding the building during the Pullman Railroad Strike in 1894.
 Lattimer massacre: Mine workers began their protest march near Harwood and many were eventually killed by the Luzerne County sheriff in Lattimer.
 Miner extracting ore from Bunker Hill mine
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1900s
 Coal miners in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, 1902  Anthracite Coal Strike Commission Appointed 1902 by President Roosevelt, a stereo card of the commission appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to resolve the Coal Strike of 1902.
 American labor activist Mother Jones (1837–1930)
 Labor Day Parade, float of Women's Trade Union League, New York, 1908 September 7
 Pennsylvania constabulary, mounted on horses, at McKee's Rock, circa 1909
 Two women strikers on picket line during the "Uprising of the 20,000", garment workers strike, New York City. Strikes, ladies tailors, N.Y., Feb. 1910, picket girls on duty
1910s
 Rubble of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910
 Image of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on 25 March 1911
 Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912  Flyer distributed in Lawrence, September 1912. The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World.
 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) demonstration in New York, 11 April 1914
.jpg.webp) The Ludlow Massacre Memorial, 20 April 1914, Colorado Coal Miners on Strike (3453614459)  A "Sympathy Labor Parade" in New York during the Minnesota Iron Range Strike, 1916
 Thomas Mooney (1882-1942), American socialist
 Newspaper headline about the Everett massacre, 1916 November 5
 Deportation of striking miners from Bisbee, Arizona, on 12 July 1917. Striking miners and others are marched from Warren Ballpark along railroad tracks toward cattle cars belonging to the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad.
 The wreckage of Chicago's Federal Building after the explosion of a bomb allegedly planted by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)...1918
 Labor Party, First National Convention, 1919 November 22, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
 African American family evacuating their house after it was vandalized in the 1919 Chicago race riot
 The front page of the Seattle Union Record at the beginning of the Seattle General Strike, 1919.
The Battle of the Barn James B. Duke and Southern Company break strike by local streetcar motormen and conductors by calling in troops. Five dead. Youngest 17 years old. Nearly two dozen wounded.
 Coming out of the smoke : newspaper cartoon depicting the steel strike, New York World, 1919 October 11
1920s
 View of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, was the site of the Battle of Matewan in May 1920 during a coal miners' strike.
 President John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers of America (right) photographed today at the Capitol, talking over the coal situation with Representative Nolan, Chairman of the Labor Committee of the House of Representatives, 1922 April 3
 Samuel Gompers Gravesite in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
 A Dominion Coal Company colliery in Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia, ca. 1900. This mine would become one of numerous assets of the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation upon its founding in 1928 through corporate acquisitions.
 Protest for Sacco and Vanzetti in London, 1921
 This cartoon from the monthly magazine of the CPLA illustrates the organization's view of the American Federation of Labor.
1930s
 Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska and Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York, both Republicans, were the chief sponsors of the Norris–Laguardia Act
 Front page of the National Industrial Recovery Act, as signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 16 June 1933.
 Francis Perkins looks on as Franklin Roosevelt signs the Wagner-Peyser Bill creating the US Employment Service, 6 June 1935
 Sit-down strikers guarding window entrance to Fisher body plant number three. Photo by Sheldon Dick, 1937.
Flint Sit-Down Strike window
1940s
 War Labor Board anthracite hearing. John L. Lewis (right), President of the United Mine Workers (UMW), confers with Thomas Kennedy (left), Secretary-Treasurer of the UMW, and Perry Tetlow (center), president of UMW District 17, at the War Labor Board conference 15 January 1943, about the anthracite coal miners' strike, 1943 January 15
 Doctor's office. The doctor for this camp is hired by Dr. Anderson, head doctor for the Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company, locally. Since the strike Dr. Anderson has cut off all funds for cleaning of this office. Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company, Exeter Mine, Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia, 10 August 1946
1950s
 Photograph of President Truman in the Oval Office, conferring with labor leader Walter Reuther, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1952 December 12.
1960s
 President Nixon with AFL–CIO President George Meany and Secretary of Labor George Shultz
1970s
 César Chávez, co founder of UFW
.jpg.webp) On 1 October 1975, press operators at the Post went on strike, severely damaging all printing presses before leaving the building
 Portrait of Lane Kirkland by Richard Whitney
1980s
 Reagan speaks on air traffic controllers strike 1981
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2010s2012 (United States)
2018 (China)
2019 (United States)
2020s2021 (United States)
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See also
Asia:
Europe
North America:
- Labor unions in the United States
- List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes
- Timeline of labour issues and events in Canada
International:
- Industrial Workers of the World
- International Trade Union Confederation
- World Federation of Trade Unions
- International Workers' Association
- IndustriALL Global Union
- International Confederation of Labor
- International comparisons of trade unions
General:
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Further reading
- Adrian Paradis, The Labor Reference Book (Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1972), 133–134.
Archival sources
- International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Louis Stulberg, President. Correspondence, 1945-1977 (bulk 1966-1975) (28 linear feet) are housed at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
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