5. The lives of workers might have been different because the unions would have then had the power to influence the employers to a far greater extent thus being able to improve the harsh working conditions and even influence the market flow. They could demand pay raises or benefits and fight the dangerously high prices of certain monopolies.
7. Workers formed unions in the late 19th century as a way to fight for their rights as laborers through strikes, picket lines, and boycotts.
8. Factors that limited the success of unions were the refusal of recognition from manegment, employers forbade unios, union members were fired, new employees were forced to sign "yellow-dog contracts" swearing that they would not join a union, industrial leaders turned the Sherman Antitrust Act against labor, and legal limitations.
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