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Position of Workers - Coggle Diagram
Position of Workers
Women Workers
Equal pay for equal work (1872)
Knights of Labour had 10,000 female members (1886)
No career pathways for women as managers
Most married women barred from working outside the home
13% of unmarried women worked in domestic occupations
Civil War increased jobs available for women
Non White Workers
Poor immigrant women worked 16 hours a day
Trade unions saw AA's as a threat
Children
Huge death rates
Children as young as 8 worked
Overall
Employers could change working hours without warning
Employers could cut wages without warning
No right to strike
Workforce spies to root out employees wanting to unionise
Grassroots labour was racially & ethnically divided