Labor Unions
and rights by forming the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1886. As Gompers (1914) wrote, the AFL was simply making a case for basic necessities: it was “in favor of a shorter workday, and a progressive decrease of working hours in keeping with the development of machinery and the use of productive forces and recognized “the need for greater opportunities and more time for rest, leisure and cultivation among the workers” along with “one entire day of rest in each week.” In other words, the labor union advocated for everything that the American workers… Continue Reading...
