Directions for the Essay
Read/Research: Dubofsky and Dulles, Labor in America: A History chapters 13-16 and 17 and “Protecting Workers by Supporting Unions: National Labor Relations Act, 1935, Wagner Act,” in Mario R. DiNunzio, Documents Decoded: The Great Depression and New Deal, pp. 191-196
Write: How did the Second New Deal
and the CIO address workers needs in the mid-1930s and what were the
political outcomes of this alliance between the Democratic Party and the
industrial union movement? Use many in-text citations with page numbers from sources to support the essay writting.
Discuss
the response of the Second New Deal after 1935- using source Melvyn Dubofsky
and Foster Rhea Dulles. Labor in America: A History. (Malden,
Massachusetts: Wiley and Blackwell, 2010). ISBN: 9780882952734 (pp
251-263)
Discuss
the ways the labor movement responded differently after 1935 (the
advent of the Congress of Industrial Organizations or CIO)
Discuss
the political meaning of the alliance between Roosevelt and the
Democratic Party and the new union movement/industrial working classes.
See attached document for assignment details, essay introduction, and outline.
Use the following sources as the basis of the essay
Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles. Labor in
America: A History. (Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley and Blackwell, 2010).
ISBN: 9780882952734 chapters 13-16 and 17
“Protecting Workers by Supporting Unions: National Labor
Relations Act, 1935, Wagner Act,” in Mario R. DiNunzio, Documents
Decoded: The Great Depression and New Deal, pp. 191-196
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