But thereâs sweet irony in seeing founders of a recruitment startup face similar challenges. Iâve been wrestling with this process myself, spending most of the past 2 months making our first key hires for RecruitLoop in San Francisco.
Library of Congress. Uriah Stephens (1821-82) founded the Knights of Labor, the first national industrial union in the United States, in Philadelphia in December 1869 and led the organization until he resigned his post as Grand Master Workman in 1879.
Flush with victory, the Knights drew in thousands of new members; within a year, 750,000 workers were united under the comprehensive umbrella of the Knights of Labor. But to a certain extant, the Knights' rapid success was also the cause of their downfall. In 1886, tens of thousands of newly-joined workers initiated labor actionsâbut only occasionally were the other members willing to walk out in support.