The passage of the National Labor Relations Act (
Wagner Act) in 1935 has become a pivot for intense scholarly debates on the role of the state in supporting working-class aspirations with opinions diverging from championing the NLRA as the touchstone of legislative reform to denunciations that it was merely a scheme to entice working-class demobilization.
("the
Wagner Act"), (26) hoped by the legislation to promote
After the 1932 election, Congress passed the
Wagner Act, which established the rights of unions to organize and strike and created employer unfair labor practices.
For a discussion of how employer advocacy and court and congressional action helped push the system in the direction of private ordering in the years after the
Wagner Act, see infra notes 61-77 and accompanying text.
sense among legal scholars that the
Wagner Act (86) model was--for
This coming July will mark the 80th anniversary of the passage of the
Wagner Act, signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1935.
I believe that the
Wagner Act is Exhibit 1 for many radicals and liberals looking back on the successes and failures of the New Deal and of their own lives.
Their struggles with loyalty investigations comprise the middle two of seven chapters, but their lives are woven throughout the study, beginning with Mary spearheading the League of Women Shoppers in the 1936 test case that validated the
Wagner Act her husband wrote.
He also might have explored the role played by Louis Brandeis and Louis Marshall, like Schiff assimilated German Jews, who settled the 1910 cloakmakers' strike through principles subsequently enacted into law by the New Deal
Wagner Act.
Specifically, the union wants to use the force of government, mainly the
Wagner Act, to coerce some people to join unions and to coerce business owners to "bargain" with unions under threat of government penalties if the owners do not concede to union demands.
What Bianchi and Stephenson ignore is that leisure and tourism were answers formulated by the capital-owners to unionization and the 1935
Wagner Act (3) in the U.S.