National War Labor Board

A staggering 30,000 Winnipeg citizens refused to work between May 15 to June 25 of 1919 in Canada’s largest and best known strike, the Winnipeg General Strike. After World War I, Canada was not in a peaceful state, as soldiers returned to find their original jobs occupied, and horrid wages and working conditions for workers. With unemployment and bankruptcy rates reaching their highest ever, 30,000 Winnipeg citizens held a strike, declining to return to their jobs until they have been granted…

like World War II. During the war years, the segregation practices of noncombatant life affected the military. Around 2.5 million Black Americans registered for draft between the years 1941-1945. The draft was segregated and usually African Americans were passed over by the all-white draft boards. Only 50,000 were…

1930s is a tough decade for America. The Black Tuesday in 1929 and the bank failure hit American economy, that lead U.S. to the Great Depression. People suffer under poverty. Also, this is the first time government try to create a large number of jobs to help people. The most important event shaped 1930s are Great Depression, New Deal program, and the entertainment during 1930s. The stock crash in 1929 seems marked the end of the roaring twenties. Thousands of people lost their working capital.…

Costly, Andrew. "BRIA 20 2 B Have Women Achieved Equality?" argues "After the United States entered World War II, millions of women flooded into jobs to replace men in industry, the professions, and government. Protective legislation was suspended. Equal pay for males and females doing the same job became an issue. The National War Labor Board, in charge of regulating labor during the war, issued rules to equalize pay. But differences remained". Men think that if women were given hard laboring…

War has many repercussions – some good, some bad. While heroic men and women get called into duty, what does it mean for healthcare while the war is ongoing and importantly after the war for those men and women. The most recent war in Iraq has had its toll in overall healthcare. In 2003, when the war began, an average premium was $9,313.64 per year for family coverage and has since inflated 62 percent to $15,022 per year, in 2011 (Schoen, Lippa, Collins, Radley, 2012). Was this directly…

Businesses attacked labor unions by hiring new workers. An example would be when the Longhorsemen went on strike. They responded by hiring over a thousand new workers. Another way business would deal with strike would be by getting law enforcement involved in the issue. In…

industry came to North America then the ungrounded railroad and the abolishment happened in 1831, 30 years later the civil war went down in 1861. During the plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court trail in 1869 the phrase “separate but equal” was documented, in the 1900’s I’ll say in 1941 African American men was now being drafted to go fight in war world II follow that the brown v. board of education happened cause the Supreme Court had declared public schools to allow African Americans to attend…

poor through their policy implementation. The book progresses with historical background, addressing the moment they were in; which is a combination of early 2000’s, around 2006 with the Historic Thousands on Jones St and progresses to 2013 with the National Moral Mondays movement that is starting to take place. The chapter cover a different subject of the moral agenda whether that be health care, education, economic justice, criminal justice rights, or LBGTQ rights. This book fits in the…

The women’s movement has made a colossal advance around the world in the last 15 years, but the accomplishments that are currently in the spotlight due to its importance and modern perspective are: The increase in the number of women on boards and political roles among the countries and the significant decrease in the gender gap. Apparently, politics seems to have slightly changed since women’s suffrage — the lack of proper publicity and notorious outbreaks in the field led to this outcome…

approached the nation, the Great Depression rattled not only the economy, but had created apparent separated affects between classes of Americans, and some of this divide persisted into the Second World War. The effects of both events affected everyone from African Americans, to Jews, and wageworkers to labor Unions. Above any other groups, ethnic groups and immigrants endured significant hardships due to white hostility. With an increasing want for government provision from citizens, the decade…