Think about what you have learned about union activities in the 1800s. how did strikes benefit what unions wanted to achieve? list at least two arguments in support of the use of strikes.

A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions, forming a cartel of labor. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members.

Sample Response: Strikes enabled the workers to ask for demands as a group. Strikes could disrupt the national economy. Strikes were successful in winning concessions for workers. Strikes gave the workers publicity in the press. Strikes cost the company money in lost productivity and security.

* Change it up a bit in your own words

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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