Organized Labor and Faction in the United States, 1930s and 1940s

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dc.contributor.authorWancewicz, Mollyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-19T22:31:30Zen_US
dc.date.available2020-04-19T22:31:30Zen_US
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.descriptionThis paper was originally prepared for Course HIST 405, Fall 2019: Democracy and Capitalism, given by Professor Carl Caldwell, Department of History.en_US
dc.description.abstractDuring the New Deal in the United States (US), labor unions began to accrue substantial membership and stepped, for the first time, into the realm of political activism. Key arenas of involvement included Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s multiple re-election campaigns, the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the passage of the National Labor Relations Act. This trend prompted criticism by contemporary political opponents, who denounced organized labor as an undemocratic faction of the type decried by James Madison in The Federalist Papers No. 10. To combat such criticism, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) developed a new vocabulary of democracy, integrating American ideals of pluralism and representation into a carefully crafted narrative of unions’ governmental involvement. The specific political tactics utilized by organized labor defined the shape of its nascent electoral and legislative engagement and dictated the democratic rhetoric it used to defend its activism.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWancewicz, Molly. "Organized Labor and Faction in the United States, 1930s and 1940s." (2020) Rice University: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108315">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108315</a>.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/108315en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRice Universityen_US
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.titleOrganized Labor and Faction in the United States, 1930s and 1940sen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.genreResearch paperen_US
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