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Content: outlawed trusts and other monopolies that fixed prices in restraint of trade. Why did women join the work force in growing numbers in the late nineteenth century? - The feminist movement encouraged farm girls and young 
immigrant women to work in order to become 
independent of their families. - Changes in agriculture brought young farm women into 
the industrial labor force, and immigrant daughters 
worked to supplement meager family incomes. - Industrialists thought women would have a civilizing 
influence on the brutal factory conditions. - Trade unions won a series of court cases opening 
employment opportunities for women. - The Civil War had created a shortage of male workers. Changes in agriculture brought young farm women into the industrial labor force, and immigrant daughters worked to supplement meager family incomes. "Yellow dog" contracts were contracts
- in which employers agreed not to hire Chinese 
immigrants. - in which workers promised not to strike or join a union.