1877-1920
Period of growing wealthy industrialists and poor workers.
What is the Gilded Age?
This early labor legislation in the United States aimed to regulate industrial working conditions but often failed to fully protect children.
What are early labor laws?
This government policy made welfare benefits a privilege rather than a right of citizenship, narrowing who counted as an American.
What is the 1966 Welfare Reform Law?
This affected the working class's ability to influence the government because of extreme work hours paired with low wages.
What is economic inequality?
This law protected organized unions aganist employers
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
This policy increased job competition for U.S. workers.
What is NAFTA?
This labor issue was criticized for lowering wages and taking bargaining power of adult workers by replacing them with cheaper labor.
What is child labor?
This group of people was excluded from the new deal to appease southern democrats
What are Agricultural and Domestic workers
In 1991, this act served to increase federal protection of discrimination against workers based on a multitude of qualities.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1991?
A concept that emphasized government influence over society
What is Social Politics?”
This agency and conflict highlighted how government intervention in employment could expand workplace protections but leave racial discrimination unresolved.
What is the Fair Employment Committee and World War II labor reform efforts?
This is a set of economic policies from 1981-1989 that caused inequality among the working class.
What is Reaganomics?
This event was the Turning Point for the working class during 1877-1920
What is the Great Railroad strike of 1877?
What is the major turning point legislation for the working class in 1921-1966.
What are the National Industrial Recovery Act,(NIRA) and the National Labor Relations Act,(NLRA)?
This was a major turning point for labor relations from 1967-2010 in the United States.
What was favoring employers over workers?