HIS 2366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: National Labor Relations Act, Eleanor Roosevelt, Indian Reorganization Act
13 Dec 2015
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Lecture #24 notes lauren poor his 2366 (fall 2015) End of 1934, roughly 10 million americans still unemployed. Work still needs to be done new deal was quick band-aid; may not have been enough. Era of labor"s great upheaval : people so desperate for jobs that factories are small tyrannies, people will accept low wages/poor conditions for any amount of money, militant upheaval of labor movement. The rise of the congress of industrial organization (c. i. o: unions now organized by industry, smaller groups associated with cio gives them backing, strikes through forms of protest. Works better than when they were organized by skilled/unskilled. Labor and politics: became focal point of all conversations. Voices of protest: idk my notes here don"t make sense she talks too fuckin" fast Focus question (1935: what were the major initiatives of the second new deal, and how did they differ from the first. The works progress administration (wpa) and the wagner act: wpa = alphabet agency.
