Comparison of Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor

The words in quotation marks are from the textbook.

Tips:

For some people, placing the same type of data for different organizations side by side makes it easier to learn and to compare.
A cheap way to do this is to make a Xerox of facts you have to be able to compare and contrast and then cut those facts—such as the quoted words show below—apart and move them, so that equivalent facts are side by side. This simple action can speed up learning.

Issue	Knights of Labor	American Federation of Labor
When?	1869	1886
Leader?	Terence V. Powderly Railroad	Samuel Gompers Cigar maker
Members?	“all who had ever worked for wages, except lawyers, doctors, bankers, and those who sold liquor” “skilled and unskilled” – industrial union Women (equal pay)	Craft unions – skilled only
Goals?	Like prior groups such as: · Labor statistics · 8-hour work day · Worker cooperatives	“concrete economic goals”: · Wages up · Hours down · “better working conditions”
Size?	1880s · From 100,000 · To 700,000 1890s gone	c. 1900 - 500,000 1914 – 2 million 1920 – 4 million But under 15% of workers
Key Events?	1886 Haymarket Riot (and other names) Trial of anarchists Execution