LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: National Labor Relations Act, W. M. Keck Observatory, Classical Liberalism
10 Dec 2015
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Industrial unions (broken down by industry, regardless of skill) Mass production industries getting bigger mass unionism. Great deal of what drives the coming of industrial unions come from. Workers becoming more insistent they want something better, level the bottom of agitation starts to grow. Average workers don"t believe a lot of the standard thinking about the economy, or the stuff they"re being told by the employer = want their own voice. Sidney hillman: advocate for industrial unions. Walter reuther: president of autoworkers union, most influential labour leader in north america, John l. lewis industrial lines: president of the miners union, largest union established along. Roosevelt comes to power = new deal in effort to revive the economy, and to maintain order, steer people away from unrest/far left/far right. Keynesian economics: established view of economics, cannot do classical liberal model, the government should not do laissez faire style, they need to be active in economy, saving capitalism from capitalists".
