origin of formation of the federation of usa
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of Labor (AFL) had 118 internatioanl unions having complete jurisdiction over their own trads, with a membership of approximately 2,000,000. The underlying principle of individual associations like trades unions is that men who think alike should act together; so a trades union, primarily, is an organization which takes an active and earnest interest in the welfare of its own individual members, and secondarily, of the members of all unions of persons of like occupation, a trades union being composed of the members of a single trade, like the hatters or glass-blowers. Such unions do not, as a rule, undertake to extend their influence to all classes of workers.
Impatient with the visionary quality of the Knights' endeavors, the skilled craft workers who founded the American Federation of Labor redefined the relationship between collective and individual interests. For them, the restoration of social harmony would come when workers aggregated sufficient power to hold dominant industrialism in check. That could only be achieved by a tightly knit organization. So the American Federation of Labor adopted a class-based definition of community and set itself to secure "more, more now" in the
Impatient with the visionary quality of the Knights' endeavors, the skilled craft workers who founded the American Federation of Labor redefined the relationship between collective and individual interests. For them, the restoration of social harmony would come when workers aggregated sufficient power to hold dominant industrialism in check. That could only be achieved by a tightly knit organization. So the American Federation of Labor adopted a class-based definition of community and set itself to secure "more, more now" in the
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