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The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act, is a foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes.
V (the Due Process Clause); National Labor Relations Act of 1935, 29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. National Labor Relations Board v Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation , 301 U.S. 1 (1937), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 , also known as the Wagner Act.
The Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948, one of the two primary labor conventions of the ILO, came into force on 4 July. 27 August 1950 (United States) President Truman ordered the U.S. Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike.
Number of striking workers by year, Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to labor historians, the US has the most violent labor history of any industrialized nation. [250] [251] [252] Some historians have attempted to explain why a labor party did not emerge in the United States, in contrast to Western Europe. [253]
Mass meeting of Cleveland steel workers in Brookside Park during strike, October 1, 1919. The United States strike wave of 1919 was a succession of extensive labor strikes following World War I that unfolded across various American industries, involving more than four million American workers.
These conditions led to the first labor combination cases in America. Over the first half of the 19th century, there are twenty-three known cases of indictment and prosecution for criminal conspiracy, taking place in six states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Virginia. [4]
Labor history is a sub-discipline of social history which specializes on the history of the working classes and the labor movement.Labor historians may concern themselves with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and other factors besides class but chiefly focus on urban or industrial societies which distinguishes it from rural history.
The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34 [4] [2] [1] was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days.