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1. Describe the ways in which the Wagner Act impacted employees' rights.
2. What circumstances prompted Congress to pass the Taft-Hartley Amendments? The Landrum-Griffin Act? What are the key provisions for each of these acts?
3. Summarize the common objectives of the early labor unions.

Wagner Act employers were required to bargain in good faith; under the Taft-Hartley that duty was extended to unions. This protected the unions and employers from unfair labor practices.

The Taft-Hartley Act, known officially as the Labor-Management Relations Act, was passed by Congress on June 23, 1947, over a veto by President Harry S. Truman, who described the legislation as a slave-labor bill.

The Taft-Hartley Act reserved the rights of labor unions to organize and bargain collectively, but also outlawed closed shops, giving workers the right to decline to join a union

The Landrum-Griffin Act sought to prevent such improper practices by labor organizations, employers, and others by establishing a Bill of Rights for union members, implementing reporting and disclosure requirements, and creating standards for the election of officers of labor organizations, among other rules .

The origins of the labor movement lay in the formative years of the American nation, when a free wage-labor market emerged in the artisan trades late in the colonial period. The earliest recorded strike occurred in 1768 when New York journeymen tailors protested a wage reduction. The formation of the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (shoemakers) in Philadelphia in 1794 marks the beginning of sustained trade union organization among American workers.

Early Labor Unions

The early labor movement was, however, inspired by more than the immediate job interest of its craft members. It harbored a conception of the just society, deriving from the Ricardian labor theory of value and from the republican ideals of the American Revolution, which fostered social equality, celebrated honest labor, and relied on an independent, virtuous citizenship. The transforming economic changes of industrial capitalism ran counter to labors vision. The result, as early labor leaders saw it, was to raise up two distinct classes, the rich and the poor. Beginning with the workingmens parties of the 1830s, the advocates of equal rights mounted a series of reform efforts that spanned the nineteenth century. Most notable were the National Labor Union, launched in 1866, and the Knights of Labor, which reached its zenith in the mid-1880s.

On their face, these reform movements might have seemed at odds with trade unionism, aiming as they did at the cooperative commonwealth rather than a higher wage, appealing broadly to all producers rather than strictly to wageworkers, and eschewing the trade union reliance on the strike and boycott. But contemporaries saw no contradiction: trade unionism tended to the workers immediate needs, labor reform to their higher hopes. The two were held to be strands of a single movement, rooted in a common working-class constituency and to some degree sharing a common leadership. But equally important, they were strands that had to be kept