LABRST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: National Industrial Recovery Act, National Labor Relations Act, Workplace Democracy

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 2A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

The new deal was a way to deal with the depression and to control the impacts. Collective bargaining was to give workers more power and the unions were supposed to boost the power of average people (get more money, boost demand, boost the economy) At this time (1920s) management had the most power and it was harsh management: canada wartime. Doesn"t take on new deal ideologies until the 1940s. Happens in a different context than the u. s. The changes of labour law are part of a series of changes that brought on better times in canada (the system is more entrenched in canada: both countries and democracy. Wager model focused on bringing democracy into new places (like the workplace) Representative structures, constitutions, committees, voting on unionization, etc democracy was brought into the workplace and gave workers a voice: wager model wanted to boost the economy and revive democracy (by changing it by expanding its scope)