Section 7(a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act declared that workers had a right to “organize and bargain collectively … free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers.” Activists in the labor movement used the legislation as a springboard for recruiting support.
Describe how unions gained momentum and evolved during the New Deal Era.
TEXTBOOKS
Boris, Eileen and Nelson Lichtenstein, Major Problems in the History of American Workers. New York: Houghton Mifflin 2003 (MP)
Murolo, Priscilla and A.B. Chitty, From the Folks Who Brought You the weekend: Revised and Updated. New York: The New Press, 2018.
Readings:
Murolo and Chitty
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- Ch. 7 (America, Inc.)
- Ch. 8 (Labor on the March)
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Boris and Lichtenstein
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- Ch. 9, Doc. 1 (Preamble of the National Labor Relations Act, 1935)
- Ch. 9, Doc. 2 (Communist John Steuben Organizes Steel, 1936)
- Ch. 9, Doc. 4 (White-Collar Workers Organize, 1938)
- Ch. 9, Doc. 5 (A Union Man Gets His Job Back, 1938)
- Ch. 9, Doc. 6 (Stanley Nowak Organizes a Slowdown Strike, 1937)
- Ch. 9, Doc. 7 (For UAW Shop Stewards: “How to Win for the Union, 1941)
- Ch. 9, Doc. 8 (Union Leaders Oppose Shop-Floor Agitators, 1941)
- Ch. 10, Doc. 1 (President Franklin D. Roosevelt Establishes a Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 1941)
- Ch. 10, Doc. 3 (The War Labor Board Assails Workplace Racism, 1943)
- Ch. 10, Doc. 4 (The War Labor Board Orders Equal Pay for Equal Work, 1944)
- Ch. 10, Doc. 5 (The Crisis Predicts a Surge in NAACP Membership, 1943
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