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Discuss the historical evolution of labor unions in the United States.This referenced historical evaluation of the labor union in America contains 444 words and 2 references. It references the union back to the 1870's.

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This post dicusses the evolution of the labor union over the years.

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Labor Unions

Labor Unions have been part of the American Landscape since the first settlers came to the new world to form a more perfect union (Reynolds, 2009). A band of unionized carpenters were involved in the Boston Tea Party in 1773; dressed as Mohawk Indians these workers banded together to show their displeasure toward taxation without representation (Labor union movements in America, 2012). Even though workers banded together in the early years of America's existence, they made up only 1% of the workforce from Colonial times till around 1870 (Reynolds, 2009). Unions were, in the early years, secret societies that used many methods of sabotage and ruthless activities in order to maintain ...

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