Congress of Industrial Organizations

securing to all workers full employment of leisure and social and cultural opportunities.28 The word social justice is neither defined in any of the labour legislations nor does it occur in any of them except the Industrial Disputes Act,…

Decolonization of British India In the 20th century, technology was integrating the world web. Politics brought mainly disintegrations reflected in World War I and II. Moreover, the industrial powers involved in those wars lost their empires. A larger burst of decolonization came after 1943, when colonies started to fight for their dependency under the tensions of total war, the diffusion of information in general and the art of political mobilization. The British Empire possessed many…

Society has evolved over the last century causing organizations to change with the times; shifts such as these, have required workers to "re-tool" to be a productive and indispensable member of the workforce. With change comes implications, not only for the workforce, but also for Human Resource (HR) managers. “Today, people of color, women, and immigrants account for nearly 85 percent of our labor force” (DeCenzo, Robbins, & Verhulst, 2013). What we have today is not what we had over one…

workers. However, the American Federation of Labor fractured into the old-timers, who believed the organization of only skilled labors and no governmental intervention, and the Committee for Interior Organization, led by John L. Lewis, that was aggressive in organizing the unorganized industrial workers. The A. F. of L. expelled the C.I.O, and in response, the C.I.O formed the Congress of Industrial…

across the Southern and Northern states. Roosevelt promised the American people hope in a time of economic disaster; "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal-The Library of Congress.) The outcome of this promise included an end to the Great depression and a forever changed America. Unlike his opponent in the election of 1932, Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt believed it was the government’s duty and responsibility to the people…

With the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, union membership began to blossom and lead to the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO). The New Deal was a set of federal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after taking office in 1933, in response to the financial disaster of the Great Depression. Within the New Deal were four major goals and…

Before 1932 Congress did not interfere with labour but the Norris-LaGuardia Act allowed free organizations and ended labour injustice . The Wagner Act was another positive act implemented which allowed for labour works the right to work or join labour organizations and through this act a National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) was formed . This board had a power of enforcement that employees…

fourteen I went to work in a railroad; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad. I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with working class. I could have been in congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison”. (Debs) These words are Eugene Debs’ Statement to the Court. Debs’ was a socialist who arrested during the time of World War I. Woodrow Wilson once said he was “a traitor to his country”. The…

need to protect the common interest of the worker. They protested for better pay, reasonable working hours, and putting a stop to child labor. It pushed for the need to protect the common interests of the workers, especially those who worked in the industrial unit by fighting for reasonable wages, working hours, and safer working conditions. This eventually grew to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide compensation to workers who are hurt or injured. Between 1860 and the 1910 the…

capitalist society towards socialism through the agrarian peasants. The fundamental concepts of Maoism can be briefly summarized as follows: (i) People’s War: Capitalism as envisaged by Mao exploited the industrial-rural…