ere (a) better pay, (b) shorter hours, and (c) improved working conditions.
In 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was formed. This union was far more radical than was the AFL. As a force in the labor movement, the IWW was dead by the beginning of the Second World War. In 1935, however, another industrial union federation was formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The CIO remained an independent organization, until 1955, when the AFL and the CIO merged into the current AFL CIO. The early years in the development of the American labor movement were consistent with the theoretical view of labor espoused by Marx, because the primary objective of the early day labor movement in this country was to obtain for the workers a fair share of the wealth being created, in large part, through the expenditure of their labors (Reynolds, 1988). Marx built his theory on that of Adam Smith. In the formulation of economic theory, Adam Smith (1776) was principally concerned with the factors
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