Book contents
- For Labor To Build Upon
- For Labor to Build Upon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An Overview
- 3 Unions, Employment Conditions, and American Exceptionalism
- 4 The Historical Backdrop
- 5 The Modern Labor Framework
- 6 The Gig Economy and All That
- 7 American Amateur Players Arise
- 8 Union Decline
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
5 - The Modern Labor Framework
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022
- For Labor To Build Upon
- For Labor to Build Upon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An Overview
- 3 Unions, Employment Conditions, and American Exceptionalism
- 4 The Historical Backdrop
- 5 The Modern Labor Framework
- 6 The Gig Economy and All That
- 7 American Amateur Players Arise
- 8 Union Decline
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
The great labor changes of the 1930s, in the wake of the Roosevelt administration inauguration in the spring of 1933, took two forms. The first was not law or regulation at all. Anything but that. It consisted of the emergence of stoppages of considerable dimension in cities like Minneapolis, Seattle, and San Francisco, where the longshore strike was to emerge in 1934 (in both Seattle and San Francisco there was the possibility of a general strike, idling workers in many industries). Ambitious initiatives were now undertaken by both general unions (the Teamsters), as well as industrial unions, nascent labor organizations whose militancy frequently outstripped their counterpart American Federation of Labor (AFL) craft affiliates.
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- For Labor To Build UponWars, Depression and Pandemic, pp. 66 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022