Effectiveness Of The New Deal Factor 3: Industry Flashcards
What is the National Recovery administration/ what did it do?
Idea was to give workers money to spend without overproducing and causing a slump
Voluntary but business were encouraged to join so that they could use the blue eagle to show president approval
What it did:
Improved working conditions in industry and outlawed child Labour
Set fair wages and sensible levels of production
What was the Wagner act
Helped to improve working conditions and gave trade unions legal foundation and the right to bargain for their members.
Why did some consider the National Recovery administration to be a success?
Over 2 million employees joined the scheme
Why did some consider the National Recovery Administration to be unsuccessful?
By 1935 some businesses lost patience with the scheme and Henry Ford cut wages
Historian Derrick Murray:
“the NRA had achieved little by 1935 when it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court”
Why did some people argue that the Wagner Act was successful?
The 1930s saw the largest growth in trade union membership in a single decade (trebled)
Permanent + decisive gains
Laid foundations for welfare state system which lasted until the 1980s
Why did some people argue that the Wagner Act was not successful?
It laid foundations for a federal welfare system but this only lasted until the 1980s
