1940s+and+1955



Postwar Proserity brang blue- collar employees into the growing middle class. The employees's wages and working conditionsgot better. Some of the union workers had earned usefull gains like, the cost- of- living increases, made in a certain way so that the wages can keep up with the rate of inflation. During 1955,almost 33 percent of all the labor forcein the U.S. was unionized. Also during that same year, the two largest unions became a partnership, American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.They became known as the AFL- CIO.

Information Provided by: Prentice Hall America Pathways to the Present Modern American History pg. 672

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