Exam 3: Historical Development

World War II was followed by a period of intense strike activity.

The Great Uprising of 1877 was successful in improving labor relations between workers and winning wage increases and reductions in hours of work.

Explain how the Great Uprising of 1877 laid the foundation for future labor-management relations.

The rise in unionization after the passage of the National Labor Relations Act was largely due to:

Which of the following was formed first?

Which labor union believed that while work was necessary to provide for both personal and psychological needs of individuals,it was also key to serving God?

The Haymarket Tragedy occurred during a rally to protest police repression of May Day strikers who were supporting May 1 as a deadline for a(n)_________________________.

Today a general unionism model has largely replaced both craft and industrial unionism.

When the CIO formed in 1938,it was much weaker than the AFL and did not pose much of a threat to AFL membership.

A key difference between the AFL and the CIO in their early years was:

______________________ unionism seeks to organize all the workers in a workplace or industry regardless of their occupations or skill levels.

The Homestead strike in 1892 and the Pullman strike in 1894 were representative of the clash between employers and the AFL over who had the right to establish:

The Knights of Labor was a militant union that advocated the use of strikes and boycotts as weapons that would force management to concede to their demands.

Industrial unions challenged the power of craft unions at a time when craft unions were struggling with jurisdictional fights and problems coordinating the efforts of various local unions.

For the Knights of Labor,the central conflict that needed to be won was between:

The National Labor Relations Act had an immediate,positive impact on employer's willingness to accept unions in the workplace and to bargain with them over the wages,hours and working conditions of their members.

Which of the following is sometimes argued to be the beginning of today's strategic human resource management and high performance workplaces?

The Homestead Strike of the Iron and Steel workers in Homestead,PA is representative of the struggle in the late 1800's between worker control over their own working conditions and management's right to unilaterally establish working conditions.

How were company unions or employee representation plans inferior to worker controlled unions?

The outcome of the Great Strike Wave of 1945-46 was to reinforce the role of labor as a negotiating partner over wages,benefits and seniority and as a partner in making decisions regarding production and management of businesses.