The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great ... as a federation to encompass American unions was the National Labor Union which truly came into force after the Civil War but was ...

Lowell's early success spawned competition: investors saw the potential for huge profits, and new industrial cities sprang up along the country's waterways. Textile prices fell. To keep their earnings ...

The Industrial Revolution introduced new machines, new industries and new jobs...even for children. Before the Industrial Revolution craftspeople made things in their own homes or in small workshops.

Haywood delivered the keynote speech at a 1905 meeting of more than 200 socialists and trade unionists that launched the Industrial ... For the Wobblies, labor strikes were an important tool.

It highlights the evolution of tools and machines, from manual labor to mechanized processes, illustrating how energy has transformed industries such as lumber and farming. The narrative ...

In this admirably short and graceful book, Klaus Schwab takes us on a breathless tour of a technological, economic, and social revolution. The first industrial revolution moved us from muscle to ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow process carried out by people using simple equipment, mostly in their own homes. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, the ...

From Hollywood to auto factories, hotels to hospitals, this year has seen a resurgence in strikes ... at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, told ABC News.

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance knocked recent globalization efforts that use "cheap labor as a crutch ... extraordinary prospect of a new industrial revolution, one on par with the ...

the heartbeat of American industry seemed to weaken as U.S. manufacturing struggled against the low labor costs of overseas competitors. The resulting decline shuttered once-thriving industrial ...