Daniel Tope is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Florida State University. He studies politics, work, and the US labor movement. His recent research focuses on the political determinants of union decline and the role of racial threat in state-level politics....
The goals of the child labor movement were rather straightforward. Most child labor reformers believed that children should not be working 50 to 60... Learn more about this topic: Child Labor in the Progressive Era | History, Opposition & Reform ...
In politics, its enhanced power led the union movement not to a new departure but to a variant on the policy of nonpartisanship. As far back as the Progressive Era, organized labor had been drifting toward the Democratic party, partly because of the latter’s greater programmatic appeal, perh...
These scholars understood that the Court's due process jurisprudence also was devoted to the protection of liberty, especially so in the context of employment; and they traced that feature of substantive due process to the anti-slavery free labor ideology of the antebellum Republican Party that ...
aProgressive Era reformers tied together the discourse over labor conditions and the increasing practice in which young working-class women were providing sexual favors in exchange for pay, which was undermining the decent family notion of the respectable middle-class. 进步时代改革者一起栓了年轻工人...
What was the goal of the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, AL? What were the objectives of the Trade Unions Act of 1926? What was an important labor reform during the Progressive Era? What were the goals of the women's liberation movement?
“I came to believe, in that one summer really, that the labor movement is the single most powerful movement in the fight for social and economic justice today,” Bogdanove says. The AFL-CIO internship also introduced Bogdanove to working with health care unions – and the experience made an...
The rights of labor to organize and bargain collectively have been removed from that liberal agenda so that not even its conservative critics can find traces ofsympathy to the labor movement in the media they have so single-mindedly harangued otherwise.23 The history of Am.erican jourrralism is...
The child labor reform movement of the Gilded Age and early Progressive Era reflected not only moral and economic forces but also the dramatic advances during the later decades of the 19th century in scientific knowledge concerning children’s biological and psychological vulnerability to environmental ...
All that being said, the legislature of anti-child labor laws may mostly have been due to circumstance. There was a huge popular movement to get children out of factories and into schools and to protect workers from dangerous conditions, but child labor in the U.S. was only at its peak ...