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 | | All of these organizations, including the AFL itself, were in theory democratic bodies, with leaders usually chosen at conventions representing the various local unions that comprised the parent organization. |
 | | Nonetheless, during the Gilded Age labor organizations won over half the strikes unions conducted and unions of skilled construction and metal-working employees were resourceful and effective in their efforts to limit the application of new machinery and methods of production and to maintain workers' incomes. |
 | | It was these separate unions, and not the AFL itself, that carried on the central activities of organized labor, notably recruiting workers into unions, conducting negotiations with employers, enforcing the terms of contracts, and conducting strikes. |
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