HRM 3422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: National Labor Relations Act, Industrial Unionism, Industrial Democracy

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 3422
• Professor: indira

Document Summary

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. Unions in both countries (us and canada) struggled to attain recognition or any degree of democracy in the workplace. The state tried to contain labour 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 labour in both countries: scientific management and mass production. It would take a new model of unionism industrial unionism for workers in canada and the us to achieve industrial democracy. Scientific management: the application of engineering principles to define specific tasks in the production process thereby removing the autonomy of skilled craft workers (associated with frederick taylor).