アメリカにおける女性労働運動 : AFLの設立まで(齊藤憲教授退職記念号)
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This paper deals with the American Women's Labor Movement. Since this paper discusses the period until the formation of the American Federation of Labor, it focuses on 19th century. When the first labor union was formed in the 1790s, women were excluded from the organization. A women's labor union was established in the early 19th century. In 1828, the first strike was held by women. However, at that time, while women sought equality between the sexes, people believed women should be submissive. Women became the representatives of labor organizations during the 1840s. At that time, the textile factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, experienced a strike in 1834. However, the strike was short-lived and unsuccessful. In 1844, five mill workers set up an organization to work for the ten-hour day. This Lowell Female Reform Association was one of the most influential of the early women's labor movement. Some other women's organizations were formed all over the country. Only New Hampshire got a ten hour work day. During the Civil War, labor shortages and economic hardships opened areas of employment usually closed or barely accessible to women. Many were hired to work in the expanding bureaus of the Union and Confederate governments. Some retained these jobs after the war and others lost their jobs. After the war, the National Labor Union was formed and women were represented in that union, a forum for the growing body of organized workers. The National Labor Union linked the women's movement and labor movement and aimed to form a new political party. Also this union became the first labor organization which held the belief in equal pay for equal work. In addition, the union endorsed woman suffrage. The Knights of Labor was organized in 1869. This union accepted the membership of women in 1881. The Knight of Labor also admitted the participation of blacks. Between 1881 and 1890, women wage earners enjoyed an unusual offer of friendship and support from the Knights of Labor. The Knights, shunning the use of the strike, set out on a Utopian and humanitarian quest to remake American society, by organizing all "toilers", skilled and unskilled, industrial, agricultural, and domestic workers, black and white, male and female. It was the first important labor organization to encourage the organization of women wage earners. The failure of the Knights of Labor and the subsequent rise of the American Federation of Labor as the major national labor organization had important consequences for the working women. In contrast to the Knights, who, under Powderly' s grand vision, aimed at radical changes in the country's economic and social institutions, the AFL, founded in 1881, had narrower goals. Its main concern was to increase its members' share of economic benefits within the existing economic and social framework. The success of the AFL resulted in little change or improvement for women wage earners.
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