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 foundation of the NCLC coincided with an era of unprecedented social activism called the Progressive Era, this period of time around the turn of the century would result in a number of important changes in American society, women’s suffrage and prohibition being some of the best-known. Th...
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...
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 informed such Reconstruction landmarks as the 13th and 14th Amendments and the Civil Rights Act of 1866...
Labor Unions in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Development and History How Did Labor Unions Fight Big Business? The Significance of Organized Labor and Unions Lesson Summary Register to view this lesson Are you a student or a teacher?
Peggy Browning Fund - Provides law students with diverse, challenging work and educational experiences in the area of workers' rights. Since 1997, The Peggy Browning Fund has been recruiting and placing progressive law students in summer law clerk positions. The positions have been with the legal ...
2 of 2 How the Progressive era changed child labour in the U.S.Learn more about the history of child labour in the United States. See all videos for this article The movement to regulate child labour began in GreatBritainat the close of the 18th century, when the rapid development of la...
Yet the AFL-CIO played a crucial role in the battle for civil rights legislation in 1964-1965. That this legislation might be directed against discriminatory trade union practices was anticipated (and quietly welcomed) by the more progressive labor leaders. But more significant was the meaning ...
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A U.S. labor board on Oct. 26 issued a final rule making it easier for workers and unions to hold companies liable for labor law violations by their franchisees and contractors, reviving an Obama-era standard heavily criticized by trade groups. … ...