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Using Primary Sources: Industrialization and the Condition of Labor42

Using Primary Sources: Industrialization and the Condition of Labor42 9 By the turn of the twentieth century, the American Federation of Labor was the dominant labor union in the country. Its aim was to win gains for skilled workers, who were overwhelmingly white, native-born males. In this source, one AF of L official discusses the

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Women at Work

Women at Work By 1900, five million of the twenty-five million Americans in the work force were women, most of whom worked at wages far below those of male workers. Note what the following sources reveal about the conditions confronting many female wage earners. How do they compare to conditions confronting male workers? 7 In

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Using Primary Sources: Industrialization and the Condition of Labor38

Using Primary Sources: Industrialization and the Condition of Labor38 to seek employment in other mills governed by the Amalgamated, while the men did not openly refuse to work with them, they managed always to find some pretext or excuse to keep from employing them. Now, Mr. Editor, I am not opposed to organized labor. God

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The belief in one God.

The belief in one God. nontheism A position that is unconcerned with the supernatural, not asserting or denying the existence of any deity. pantheism The belief that everything in the universe is divine. polytheism The belief in many gods. post-structuralism An analytical approach that does not seek to find universal structures that might underlie language,

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. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions.

.The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions. New . The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions. New York: Knopf, 2006. An exploration of the evolution of the world’s major religious traditions, written by a popular historian of comparative religion. Campbell, Joseph, and Bill Moyers. The Power of Myth. New York: Doubleday,

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