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... > social science subjects > sociology > social change > activism and social justice > labor/socialism/communism/social class > Industrial Workers of the World
... > contexts > population characteristics > socioeconomic factors > social change > activism and social justice > labor/socialism/communism/social class > Industrial Workers of the World

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Industrial Workers of the World  

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  • AFTER THE VIOLENT confrontations of the Gilded Age, American craft unionism and big business established an uneasy truce. In return for toleration, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) accepted business dominance of the labor-management arrangement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right: Volume 1: TheLeft and Volume 2: The Right; Industrial Workers of the World]

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