Labor relations

Labor relations

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Prohibited practises

Labor; Labor relations

Generally used in public employment to describe unfair labour practises on the part of employer and employee organizations.

National labour Relations Act of 1935

Labor; Labor relations

Also known as the "Wagner Act" after the law's chief sponsor, Senator Robert Wagner of New York. It represented a fundamental turnaround in government's attitudes toward labour relations. The law ...

Shop union

Labor; Labor relations

Established by the Knights of labour in the 1880s. Shop unions in the factory carried out the rule enforcements of the local assemblies.

Tenant farmer

Labor; Labor relations

When southern plantations were broken up after the Civil War, blacks and poor whites were controlled by landowners through sharecropping. The tenant farmer paid roughly a third of his crop to the ...

Underground railroad

Labor; Labor relations

A system of clandestine routes toward Canada whereby abolitionists helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom.

Associated with the principles of "scientific management" advocated by Frederick W. Taylor at the beginning of the twentieth century. Tayor proposed time and motion studies of jobs to enable managers ...

Taft Hartley

Labor; Labor relations

In 1947, Congress passed the Taft Hartley Act which outlawed the closed shop, jurisdictional strikes, and secondary boycotts. It set up machinery for decertifying unions and allowed the states to ...