{"id":70528,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/what-were-the-goals-of-the-american-federation-of-labor-when-it-was-founded"},"modified":"2017-08-18T06:13:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T06:13:49","slug":"what-were-the-goals-of-the-american-federation-of-labor-when-it-was-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-were-the-goals-of-the-american-federation-of-labor-when-it-was-founded\/","title":{"rendered":"What were the goals of the American Federation of Labor when it was founded?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL arose as a reaction against the Knights of Labor. The primary focus of the AFL was members wages and working conditions rather than political goals.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights of Labor was a large group of Unions active in the mid to late 1800s. A dispute during a lock out of the Cigarmakers International Union led to the creation of the American Federation of Labor as a Union group in 1886 against the KOL. The Knights of Labor imploded as an organization in the next year or so and lost a majority of its members Unions.<\/p>\n<p>The AFL concentrated on bargaining with Employers for better wages and working conditions rather than aligning with Communists or Anarchists for political gains. They grew slowly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL arose as a reaction against the Knights of Labor. The primary focus of the AFL was members wages and working conditions rather than political goals. The Knights of Labor was a large group of Unions active in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-were-the-goals-of-the-american-federation-of-labor-when-it-was-founded\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}