LECTURE 10: LABOR AND BUSINESS IN THE TWENTIES
Lecture Outline
1. Big labor.
2. The Red Scare (1919-20).
3. Labor in the twenties.
4. Business-government partnership.
Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture
American Federation of Labor (1886)
"collective bargaining"
"bread-and-butter issues"
Bolshevik Revolution (1917)
Comintern (1919)
Seattle General Strike (1919)
A. Mitchell Palmer
Communist Party U.S.A. (1919)
Boston Police Strike (1919)
Steel Strike of 1919
"welfare capitalism"
"company union"
"profit-sharing"
"yellow dog contract"
William Green
War Industries Board (1917)
Pres. Calvin Coolidge
Pres. Herbert Hoover
"The business of America is business."
Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows (1925)
subsidies
Andrew Mellon
Federal Trade Commission (1914)
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