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Definition of American Federation of Labor
1. Noun. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Federation Of Labor
Literary usage of American Federation of Labor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Labor Unions by Helen Marot (1914)
"CHAPTER II American Federation of Labor Effort to establish its theory of ...
THE theory of the American Federation of Labor, upheld by its national ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"Recently the public has become aware that the American Federation of Labor has
a rival in the Industrial Workers of the World. Its history dates back to ..."
3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1913)
"The Western Federation of Miners, which now belongs to the American Federation
of Labor, includes all but one or two crafts employed about the mines, ..."
4. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"The American Federation of Labor had its beginning in Pittsburg in 1881.
John Jarrett, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers, ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Organized Labor in America by George Gorham Groat (1916)
"CHAPTER VI THE American Federation of Labor Though the Knights of Labor had such
conspicuous success, it must not be understood that it was the only such ..."
6. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Illinois Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"John Riley, Negro organizer for the American Federation of Labor in the Stock
Yards district. Max Brodsky, secretary-treasurer,Local 100, ..."
7. History and Functions of Central Labor Unions by William Maxwell Burke (1899)
"This convention was important as laying the foundation of the American Federation
of Labor. The call . itself was peculiar, for it spoke of a federation as ..."
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