The 1920s, and even more the 1930s, had delivered mass unemployment and hardship, bitter confrontation between labor ... movement that had begun during the last decades of the nineteenth century ...

Historians have often described these statutes, which had spread throughout the United States by the mid-nineteenth century, as an early form of labor legislation. This Article shows how, in ...

At the end of the nineteenth century, Progressivism emerged as a political movement in response to significant ... He also advocated for fair trade and pro-labor laws, including a decreased ...