Describe Workers' Responses to the Low Wages and Poor Working

question 61

Essay

Describe workers' responses to the low wages and poor working conditions they experienced in late-nineteenth-century industrial jobs. How did they try to improve their situations, and what demands did they make? How did industrialists and the U.S. government respond?

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