The labor perspective of the situation. What did most working people want? They wanted a fair minimum wage for a equal matched hours justly fitting their cost of living, standard of living, and being able to afford a lifestyle the U.S. Worker thought they were entitled to as Americans. How did they try to get it? They resorted to forming unions with skilled labors in mostly hands of labor intensive professions, at times resorting to violence, passive resistance, peaceful strikes, and individual negotiations between labor strike leaders an management officials of the company. How successful were they? After the turn of the 19th century several articles of legislation were introduced an unanimously passed supposedly to stop ageism, discrimination, and sexism for all kinds of labors with experience or with apprenticeships. What factors outside of their control affected their struggle? For example, the oil lobby which continual swindled, black mailed, and brides to control the direction of legislation in their favor for corporate subsides, eminent domain rights in their favor, and military suppression. For example the world one veterans strike in the capital which put a young general Macarthur in the spotlight.
The side of management and industrial giants. What did most business owners and managers want? Unregulated business practices for their growing industries, fair trade deals with foreign companies, lowered corporate taxes, cheap raw materials, no trade barriers, and no government price controls to drive away their customers. How did they get it? Endorsing politicians campaigns such as sponsoring political rallies, campaign contributions, creating lobbies in Washington to persuade the government to direct legislation in their favor economically and politically wise. How successful were they? In many circumstances they were largely the winners of the bitter struggle between laborer & business owner, in terms of privately devising employment deals with their workers with no government intervention, creating investment houses for lower & middle class workers to make it rich using their nothing but strategy an a bit of money to buy stock. What factors outside of their control affected their struggle? Laborers and workers complaining to the press of inhospitable work environments, unfair pay not equal to the number of hours they worked, complaining of managements disloyalty to its own workers for picking cheap unskilled foreign laborers, all of its combination together the press uses to vilify corporate giants.
The major outlying points of the struggle between labor and industry.
Labor. Being treated unfairly in wages, unworkable unhealthy environments, to many over work hours, and adjusting their wages to the life style they found accustomed to or which they wanted to develop in their life.
Industry. Supplying cheap, quality made, and readily made products and services to the masses domestically and internationally to create low prices for consumers. Thus creating trusts giving smaller companies some independent decisions in their integrated system of vertical integration, with worked accurate business strategies, while saving dying competing companies by offering a trust agreement to take them under their wing.
