Chapter 10 starts in the first half of the 19th century and explores the history of the labor movement until the Compromise of 1877. Chapter 10 asserts that schoolbooks tend to highlight those years filled with controversy over slavery; however, on the eve of the Civil War, money and profit, not the movement against slavery, was uppermost in the priorities of the men who ran the country. Chapter 10 highlights that across the North, trade unions formed, uniting workers for a common cause; many labor organizations led to numerous strikes and riots in cities like Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Chapter 10 suggests that the lessons of the various strikes were incorporated by later unions. Finally, Chapter 10 indicates that Black people realized the minority did not have the strength to make real the promise of equality in the Civil War; the working class also learned they were not united enough to defeat the combination of private capital and government power.
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