American Decades

Important Events in Business and the Economy, 1910–1919

Nearly one-third of the nation's coal miners are unionized, compared to 10 percent of workers in other industries.
On January 1, more than 2.5 million women (more than one-third of the U.S. female workforce) work as housekeepers. African American and immigrant women hold the majority of these jobs.
On June 18, Congress passes the Mann-Elkins Act, which empowers the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate railroad, cable, wireless, telephone, and telegraph companies.
In July, a survey reports that an unskilled laborer who worked twelve-hour days, seven days a week, could not support a family of five. Poverty forced wives and children to work.
On September 7, the U.S. and Great Britain settle their dispute over fishing rights in the Atlantic Ocean.
On October 1, twenty people are killed and seventeen injured when John J. and James McNamara blow up the Los Angeles...

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