IRE244H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Privy Council Of The United Kingdom, National Labor Relations Act, War Measures Act
10 Oct 2018
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Prior to the passage of the wagner act in the us, unions were seldom. Chapter 4: the legal environment recognized without a violent power struggle between management and labor. In canada, while unions had achieved legal recognition in the trade union act of. 1872, they encountered the same hostile employers in the canadian context. The state tried to contain labor conflict in the 1907 industrial dispute. Investigation act (idia) in canada but again failed to provide an orderly mechanism for union recognition. In the second decade of the 20th century, a number of broader social and economic factors would contribute to the decline of organized craft labor in both countries. Influence of scientific management and mass production, the increasing use of company unions as a method of union substitution; and a generally hostile legal environment. The great depression of the early 1930s gave rise to a new wave of unionism.
