American Federation of Labor Is Founded

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Article abstract: The first effective attempt to organize workers in skilled trades at a national level.

Summary of Event

All indices of industrial production in the United States in the closing decades of the nineteenth century revealed a tremendous rate of growth. Stimulated by the arrival of millions of immigrants, the U.S. population spiraled from fifty million in 1880 to seventy-six million by 1900. With great strides in scientific and technological development, new industries burgeoned with the production of electric lighting equipment, telephones,...

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