Emergence of American labour consciousness:
- Started in early 20th century
- Important focus of american social history
- Focussed on the complex life of working American people
- Explored the struggles against exclusion from
opportunities
- Showed the inequalities in accommodations to political Economic
contexts
- 1896 and 1945 brought new changes in Labour in the history of
United States
- Americans worked many hours a day
- They laboured 54 to 63 hours per week
- Had to face dangerous working conditions
- Labourer's had Little power in Democratic or Republican
party
- Faced legal systems with no Right at work
- Violent actions against the labourers
- Organized labour shrinked 1895 and 1897
- Major American labour emerged during world war 2
- Greater earning potential for American labourers
First world war:
- 1914 to 1918
- Two main causes
- Decay of Turkish empire and perceived decay of Hapsburg
- Dual monarchy of Australia and Hungary
- Lasted until November 1918
- That is exactly 4 years ,3 months and 14 days
- Until world war 2 it was named as greater war or the world war
or the war to end all wars
- Military conflict which involved all biggest powers of the
world
- 135 countries took part
- Led to the death of 15 million people
- Two opposing alliance:
- Allies and central powers
- Triggered by assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Australia
- Primary cause was difference over foreign policy
- 8 million soldiers died and 21 million were injured
- In 1919 the treaty of Versailles officially ended world war
1
- Made Germany fully responsible for the war
- Germans were resentful for this treaty