The use of sit-down strikes to promote change in the workplace was most associated with a) the knights of labor. b) the american federation of labor. c) the industrial workers of the world. d) the congress of industrial organizations.

The use of sit-down strikes to promote change in the workplace was MOST associated with the Industrial Workers of the World. Option C is correct.

A sit-down strike is a labour strike and a kind of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, generally working at factories or similar centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the place where they work by "sitting down" at their stations in order to prevent employers from replacing them with strikebreakers.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”