Sons of Vulcan

Sons of Vulcan
Merged intoAmalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Founded1858
Dissolved1876
Location
Members
3,331 in 1874 (height)[1]
Key people
Miles Humphreys, first Grand Master (later President)

The Sons of Vulcan was an American labor union which existed from 1858 until 1876. The union recruited puddlers, skilled craftsmen who manipulated pig iron to create steel. In the 1870s, it was the strongest union in the United States.[1][2][3][4] It merged with two other iron and steel unions in 1876 to form the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers—the forerunner of the United Steelworkers.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c Brooks, Robert R.R. As Steel Goes: Unionism in a Basic Industry. New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940.
  2. ^ a b Brody, David. Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era. Illini Book edition. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-252-06713-6
  3. ^ Gulick, Charles A. Labor Policy of the United States Steel Corporation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1924.
  4. ^ Boswell, Terry. Racial Competition and Class Solidarity. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2006. ISBN 0-7914-6671-X