Organized Labor and the New Deal
Labor Unions During the Great Depression and New Deal
In 1933, the number of labor union members was around 3 million, compared to 5 million a decade before. Most union members in 1933 belonged to skilled craft ...
Organized Labor and the New Deal - Women & the American Story
Background. Labor unions were a critical part of the New Deal. Both the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ...
FDR and the Wagner Act - FDR Presidential Library & Museum
The Wagner Act not only restated the Section 7a right of workers to collective bargaining, it established a new independent National Labor Relations Board.
Chapter 3: The Department in the New Deal and World War II 1933 ...
The program included abolition of child labor, supporting higher wages for all workers, and government recognition of the right of workers to organize. Many of ...
Labor Upheaval, Industrial Organization, and the Rise of the CIO
Before the New Deal, Lewis had seemed the most conventional of labor leaders, a typical union boss, even a tyrant who brooked no opposition within his own union ...
Why did the power of labor unions increase during the New Deal?
A million workers were on strike in 1933. A huge grassroots movement to build new unions swarmed across the northern states, and reached into parts of the ...
Labor's Past and Future: The New Deal Order, the Neoliberal Order ...
Conflicts over labor and law's role in labor relations evolved throughout the Progressive Era and into the New Deal. Then, labor issues came to ...
Part IV: Labor, the Depression, the New Deal, and WWII
As World War II drew to a close and millions of workers faced unemployment a demand dropped, labor unions faced a hostile public and political ...
1936, a Year for the Worker: Labor Action and the Reelection of ...
This new NLRB had the power to compel businesses to recognize unions once elections were held. Not to be forgotten was the Revenue Act of 1935, ...
Labor Movement ‑ America, Reform & Timeline | HISTORY
For those in the industrial sector, organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions. The labor ...
1935 passage of the Wagner Act | National Labor Relations Board
The Wagner Bill proposed to create a new independent agency—the National Labor Relations Board, made up of three members appointed by the President ...
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
It established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector. After the National Industrial ...
Strikes & Unions - Great Depression Project - University of Washington
The Great Depression would ultimately be remembered as labor's finest hour, a time of massive organizing drives, successful strikes, soaring social idealism, ...
Pennsylvania and the Great Depression - Explore PA History
Once in office, FDR and Congress created a package of programs that provided relief for the jobless through public works projects and pro-labor legislation that ...
A Brief History: The U.S. Department of Labor
... Fair Deal" program forward at the Department of Labor. Noble goals for ... New laws on misconduct by unions and employers led to new responsibilities for the ...
Other laws established the National Recovery Administration (NRA), which worked with employers and labor to establish codes of fair practice in industry, and ...
In the second, marked by wartime mobilization, southern Democrats, pressed by harbingers of wartime social change, including very tight labor markets and union ...
New Deal Labor Reforms and their Aftermath - Cornell eCommons
The main question to be answered is if there existed between 1945-1980 a more or less balanced social compact in the U.S. between trade unions, employers and ...
Before the New Deal, American workers had little power. Employers set wages as low as they wished. Pensions and other benefits were rare. Workplace safety was ...
Labor Unions and the U.S. Economy | U.S. Department of the Treasury
“Economic Impacts of New Unionization on Private Sector Employers: 1984–2001.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 (4): 1383–1441 ...