Andrew Carnegie - Was one of the first industrial moguls to change from being dirt poor, to rich.
Social Darwinism - Grew out of the biological evolution by Charles Johnson. It went around "natural selection."
John D. Rockefeller - Established the corporation of the Standard Oil Company, and took a different approach to mergers.
Sherman Antitrust Act - made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.
Samuel Gompers - let the Cigar's Makers' International Union to join with the craft unions in 1886.
American Federation of Labor (AFL) - focused on collective bargaining, or negotiation between representatives of labor and management, to write written agreement on wages, hours, and working conditions.
Eugene V. Debs - attempted to form an industrial union.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) - a group of radical unionist and socialists.
Mary Harris Jones- Very involved in the Women's labor movement.
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