In the 1930’s a huge factor lead to the passage of income continuity, the Great Depression. During the Great Depression scores of businesses failed, and many workers became chronically unemployed (Martoccho, 2015). The Great Depression brought the demise of smaller businesses and forced many to...
Explain the rise of organized labor unions in the United States starting in the late 1800s. Show how labor unions protected American workers after the Great Depression with the passage of the National Labor Relations Act. Explore how teachers’ unions and strikes help protect the interests of sch...
In the 1890s, many of the craft unions bonded together to form the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Early strikes and conflicts during this period included the United Mine Workers and the Danbury Hatters case in 1902. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Congress of Industrial...
Strikes have been a powerful, sometimes perilous tactic for workers as they've fought for better wages and working conditions.
The movement in organized labor from 1875 to 1900 to improve the position of workers was unsuccessful because of the inherent weaknesses of unions and the failures of their strikes, the negative public attitudes toward organized labor, widespread government corruption, and the tendency of government ...
outlawed secondary boycotts, and allowed growers to obtain a restraining order to prevent strikes during the harvest. Despite an outcry from farm workers and Chavez's request that they meet to discuss the bill, Governor Jack Williams immediately signed it into law. Later that day, Chavezbegan ...
Atleson, Labor and the Wartime State, 59. Despite the official no-strike pledge, thousands of job actions erupted during the war. Between 1942 and 1945, seven million workers took part in more than fourteen thousand strikes. In 1943, the number of strikes rose by 25 percent and increased ...
Moreover, strike activity has paralleled the downward membership trends. In 1997, there were 29 strikes involving 1,000 or more workers; these strikes were able to draw a total of 339,000 workers. By way of comparison, 255 strikes of similar scale took place in 1979, involving a total of...
On June 1, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, 1,500 workers in El Monte, California’s berry fields walked out to demand higher wages and better working conditions. While the work stoppage was part of a larger series of strikes organized by the Cannery and Agricultural Workers’...
For its part, despite a robust labour-reform rhetoric, the Knights of Labor began to act increasingly like a rival trade-union movement, carrying on strikes and organizing workers along industrial rather than craft lines. When the Knights rejected a proposal reaffirming the historic separation of ...