Industrial Unionism

Examples of Industrial Unionism in the following topics:

• A New Direction for Unions

  • One of the flagship legislative proposals of the First New Deal (1933-34/5) was the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA, June 1933).
  • After the defeat at the 1935 convention, Lewis gathered AFL's pro-industrial unionism  leaders and organized the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) to "encourage and promote organization of workers in the mass production industries."
  • The CIO transitioned into a rival federation of unions under the new name of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. 

• Japan's Industrial Revolution

• Industrial Societies: The Birth of the Machine

  • During the Industrial Revolution (roughly 1750 to 1850) changes in technology had a profound effect on social and economic conditions.
  • Examples of the technological innovation of the Industrial Revolution include the invention of steam and coal engines.
  • The period of time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians.
  • Great Britain provided the legal and cultural foundations that enabled entrepreneurs to pioneer the Industrial Revolution.
  • Analyze the shift from manual to machine based labor during the First and Second Industrial Revolutions

• Industrial Work

  • Industrial labor is labor in industry, usually manufacturing, but it may also include service work, such as cleaning or cooking.
  • In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution dramatically changed labor practices.
  • Before the Industrial Revolution, most production took place in homes or in small workshops.
  • Industrial labor is defined as labor in industry.
  • Industrial labor includes factory workers, but it may also include service workers, such as cleaners and cooks.

• Industrialization and the Graying of the Globe

  • Industrialization has contributed to the growth of the older age population due to the technological advances that have come with it.
  • Industrialization is the process of social and economic change that transforms a community from an agrarian society into an industrial one.
  • Most Western countries industrialized by the nineteenth century but the Industrial Revolution is still occurring around the world.
  • Industrialized countries are defined by measures of economic growth and security.
  • Industrialization brings money into an economy.

• Industrialization and the Environment

  • During the Industrial Revolution, environmental pollution increased with the use of new sources of fuel, the development of large factories, and the rise of unsanitary urban centers.
  • The Industrial Revolution brought enormous advances in productivity, but with steep environmental costs.
  • During the Industrial Revolution, environmental pollution in the United States increased with the emergence of new sources of fuel, large factories, and sprawling urban centers.
  • Fossil fuels powered the Industrial Revolution.
  • The cholera outbreak of 1832 was related to overcrowding and unsanitary conditions that attended the Industrial Revolution.

• The Industrial Revolution

  • The Industrial Revolution, which reached the United States by the 1800s, strongly influenced social and economic conditions.
  • The Industrial Revolution was a global phenomenon marked by the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to 1840.
  • The Industrial Revolution began in the United Kingdom, and mechanized textile production spread from Great Britain to continental Europe and the United States in the early nineteenth century.
  • Though the United States borrowed significantly from Europe's technological advancements during the Industrial Revolution, several great American inventions emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century that greatly affected manufacturing, communications, transportation, and commercial agriculture.
  • The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in history.

• The Second Industrial Revolution

  • The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the "Technological Revolution," was a phase of rapid industrialization in the final third of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
  • The First Industrial Revolution, which ended in the early-mid 1800s, was punctuated by a slowdown in macroinventions before the Second Industrial Revolution in 1870.
  • A synergy between iron and steel, and railroads and coal developed at the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution.
  • Horses and mules remained important in agriculture until the development of the internal combustion tractor near the end of the Second Industrial Revolution.
  • The Second Industrial Revolution continued into the twentieth century with early factory electrification and the production line, and ended at the start of the World War I.

• Industrializing Countries

  • Industrializing countries have low standards of living, undeveloped industry, and low Human Development Indices (HDIs).
  • Industrializing countries have HDIs between the most and least industrialized countries in the world .

• Industrial Growth

  • The Industrial Revolution began in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and it quickly spread to the United States.