Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was a British-born American labour leader. A cigar maker by trade, he founded the American Federation of Labor in 1886 and led it for nearly four decades, shaping a movement built on skilled trade unions, collective bargaining and concrete gains in wages and hours rather than on party politics. He edited and wrote extensively for the AFL's monthly magazine, The American Federationist, and published his memoirs, Seventy Years of Life and Labor, shortly before his death.
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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was a British-born American labour leader. A cigar maker by trade, he founded the American Federation of Labor in 1886 and led it for nearly four decades, shaping a movement built on skilled trade unions, collective bargaining and concrete gains in wages and hours rather than on party politics. He edited and wrote extensively for the AFL's monthly magazine, The American Federationist, and published his memoirs, Seventy Years of Life and Labor, shortly before his death.
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