Ahh -- but strikes eventually brought about changes in working conditions.
But during the Gilded Age the companies had more money and power than the unions. Also -- if a company fired workers, there were a lot of poor workers who eagerly grabbed at the available jobs. It was an employers' market.
Why did strikes fail to result in improved working conditions for laborers?
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So really strikes made the Unions look like trouble makers, the violence turned many others empathetic citizens away from Unions, and the Unions lost support and power as a result in the early 1900s?
Yes.
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