Rose Staub Summary

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The following retrospective analysis provides a compressed summation of the first scholarly article available published in the Fall 1965 edition of the American Business Law Journal titled Rose Staub--Feminine Labor Leader and Her Involvement in a Brief Chapter of Labor Law Written in the City Halls of the Rural South by Dwayne L. Oglesby. The summary identifies events that propelled Rose Staub in the limelight of the labor movement and the impact of her involvement.

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After World War II, many capitalists began moving factories down south to take advantage of the reduction in requirements for farming laborers. Recognizing the economic potential for the dwindling population of many of these small towns, the local government began providing incentives to the Northern corporations to entice development in their area. As a result, union campaigners followed the factory surveyors down south eager to boost membership and advocate for the new factory workers.

The dwindling population of these communities provides the perfect recipe for corporations to take advantage of and capitalize on low-wage workers. Their isolation in the rural south during this era provided little
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3). Attempting to counteract these actions, a collective of extreme capitalists have initiated a counter movement designed to reduce the influence of; and eventually eliminate these movements. Stephen Duncombe’s review of One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy; by Thomas Frank reveals a hidden truth that is congruous among the financial elite. He describes the capitalistic conspiracy perpetrated on the unsuspecting society of middle-class Americans in the form of market

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