THE RELEVANCE OF THE NLRA AND LABOR ORGANIZATIONS IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL, GLOBAL ECONOMY

Labor Law Journal | October 1, 2006| | Copyright

When the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)1 was enacted in 1935, 13.2 percent of nonagricultural labor force participants were members of labor organizations.2 The United States had been transformed from an agrarian to an industrial economy as large manufacturing firms were established to produce automobiles, steel, electrical equipment, and similar commodities. During the mid-1930s, the leadership of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) created the Committee for Industrial Organization that was intended to develop ways to organize these new manufacturing companies and divide the new ...

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