Why did workers form labor unions? Why does February have 28 days? Why is it called a civil war? Why did the Pilgrims celebrate the first Thanksgiving? Why do we have leap year? Why were labor strikes between 1880-1920 often not successful?
Why did workers form labor unions? Why did the Founding Fathers keep slavery in the U.S. Constitution? Why was the triangular trade so profitable? Why did slave codes become more strict over time? What was the purpose of the Atlantic slave trade?
Why might this be, given that the minimum wage may act as a substitute for the bargaining power offered by labor unions? In this paper, we study the interplay between minimum wages and union membership. Using variation in U.S. states' minimum wages during the 2010s, we estimate that each...
Howard Kimeldorf, "Bringing Unions Back In (or Why We Need a New Old Labor History)," Labor History, 32, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 91-103, followed by responses from Michael Kazin, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, Bruce Nelson, Daniel Nelson, 104-29. See also the roundtable ...
"In California, we produce energy using local workers under the world's strictest labor and environmental laws," added Tom Baca, Secretary-Treasurer of theState Building and Construction Trades Council of California and International Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Boilermaker...
Why did Henry Ford create the assembly line? Why did workers form labor unions? Why were labor unions formed during the Industrial Revolution? Why were labor strikes between 1880-1920 often not successful? Why did most Industrial workers vote Republican in the election of 1896? Why was FDR's...
When workers managed to form unions, companies called on local police to disperse union gatherings, marches and picket lines, using violence and mass arrests to break the will of strikers. A narrow focus Police work is a fundamentally conservative act. And police officers tend to ...
varying labor market conditions across skill types, did not exist in the late 1970s but today is ubiquitous. 4. Model The goal of this section is to build a tractable model of the labor market capturing the conditions workers face when choosing an employment status and occupation. For ...
Why did workers form labor unions? Why did the South secede from the Union? Why did slavery happen? In the United States, why did the North oppose slavery? Why did David Walker want to end slavery? During the Civil War, why did the South decided to secede from the Union? Why wasn't...