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The American Labor Movement
- Words to Know
- Eight-hour day and the National Labor Union
- Knights of Labor, 1869–79
- Depression of 1873
- The Great Strikes of 1877
- Powderly leads the Knights of Labor
- The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
- Haymarket riots
- Marx and Engels on the Struggle between Capital and Labor
- The Federation becomes the AFL
- The Pullman strike
- The History of Labor Day
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