Justice at Work? Civil Rights and Labor Law and the Workplace

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Winter Week Four -- February 2
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Seminar on Turbulent Years
Legal research workshop-reading cases

Reading to have completed:
Selections from Turbulent Years (remainder above) or Chapter 8 from Who Built America? and Ch. 9 from ULL

Assignment due:
Notes on Turbulent Years or Who Built America?
Which actions of working people helped propel a change in the law?
Which actions by corporate or business leaders helped change the law?
What do you think the motivations of political leaders like Roosevelt and Wagner were? What were they trying to do?
What events, people, or ideas were surprising to you? Did you discover any "hidden history" in your book?

 

For next week, be sure to read:Organizing Guide for Local Unions (electronic reserves)
and Finding Their Voice and this memo and the Union Avoidance article on electronic reserves.

 

Genora Johnson Dollinger, of the Flint Women's Emergency Brigade>

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