Labor
Labor and economic issues are recurring themes in election years, with every voter feeling the impact of these issues. Debates and actions around wages and workplace conditions are reflected across our records
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- "The Living Wage,"(front) an economic and moralistic text written by Catholic U professor Msgr. John A. Ryan. An expansion of his Catholic U thesis, it was an early example of an argument for a minimum wage in the United States and was influential in later New Deal legislation. (Source: John A. Ryan papers)
- Statement on Farm Labor, national Conference of Catholic Bishops, November 13, 1968, (back) In November, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops issued its Statement on Farm Labor, which asked Congress to pass legislation to include farmworkers under the National Labor Relations Act, include them under minimum wage laws, and include them in national unemployment insurance. More information about the National Conference of Catholic Bishops Statement on Farm Labor can be found on the American Catholic History Classroom. (Source: NCCB)
- National Conference of Catholic Bishop's Statement on Farm LaborSource: NCCB
Date: November 13, 1968
- Guest pin, June 1978 Conference of American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Las Vegas, Nevada. (front) The pin belonged to Msgr. George Higgins (Source: George Higgins Collection).
- Women Delegates at Knights of Labor Convention, Richmond, Virginia, October 1886. (back) The Knights of Labor was the first nationwide labor union in the United States and it was spearheaded by Catholic leaders such as Terence Powderly. It included members of both sexes as well as Black and white members. (Source: Terence Powderly papers).
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Date: 1886-10
In 2024, the hot topics concerning the broad themes of labor include:
• Unions
• Wages
• Manufacturing jobs
• Jobs exported to foreign countries / markets
• Automation of jobs
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Fulfilling the Pledge by Call Number: HD6508 .H295 2024ISBN: 9780262547130Publication Date: 2024-02-13An insightful and evidence-based assessment of our urgent need to enact labor law reform-and how to achieve it. Millions of non-union workers want unionization, but our current labor-management relations law conspires to deny them meaningful opportunities to secure collective workplace representation. The resulting low rates of collective bargaining impose economic, political, and social costs on us all. In Fulfilling the Pledge, Roger Hartley addresses the plight of American workers, who face a grim, uncertain future, as the digital workplace reshapes the hierarchical post-World War II industrial relations system that once gave workers a voice.
How Policies Make Interest Groups by Call Number: LB2844.53.U6 H27 2022ISBN: 9780226820880Publication Date: 2022-10-14A critical, revelatory examination of teacher unions' rise and influence in American politics. As most American labor organizations struggle for survival and relevance in the twenty-first century, teacher unions appear to be an exception. Despite being all but nonexistent until the 1960s, these unions are maintaining members, assets--and political influence. As the COVID-19 epidemic has illustrated, today's teachers' unions are something greater than mere labor organizations: they are primary influencers of American education policy. How Policies Make Interest Groups examines the rise of these unions to their current place of influence in American politics.
American Workers, American Unions by Call Number: HD6508 .Z53 2014ISBN: 9781421413433Publication Date: 2014-05-15An update to the classic history of labor and unions for a post-9/11 world. Highly acclaimed and widely read since its first publication in 1986, American Workers, American Unions provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. Taking into account recent important work on the 1970s and the Reagan revolution, the fourth edition newly considers the stagflation issue, the rise of globalization and big box retailing, the failure of Congress to pass legislation supporting the right of public employees to collective bargaining, the defeat in Congress of legislation to revise the National Labor Relations Act, the emasculation of the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, and the changing dynamics of blue-collar politics.
Cathonomics by Call Number: BX1795.E27 A55 2021ISBN: 9781647121426Publication Date: 2022-01-10As inequality skyrockets, economists and politicians alike demand a new economic paradigm to promote the common good. In Cathonomics, Anthony M. Annett draws on economics, Catholic social thought, philosophy, climate science, and psychology to show how readers of all faiths and backgrounds can work together to create a more just economy.
