Despite the steady rise in the percentage of women in the corporate workforce since World War II, women have faced a number of challenges, legal and social, in achieving equality in the business world.
The United Mine Workers of America has been instrumental in changing the way in which companies and workers regard each other and in improving labor relations between the groups.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union strives to improve and protect the rights of workers by fighting for competitive wages, health care reform, retirement security, safe working conditions, and the right to unionize.
The United Farm Workers organizes for the rights of agricultural workers and has been instrumental in changing labor laws and securing more equitable contracts.
In the aftermath of the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, in which 146 people—mostly women immigrants—died, major reforms in labor and fire-safety laws were passed...
U.S. senator Robert A. Taft and U.S. representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr., sponsored the legislation officially known as the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 and commonly known as the Taft- Hartley Act.
Slave trading across the Atlantic Ocean provided revenue for northern ports in American colonies and a labor source for plantations in the American South.
The Seneca Falls Convention started the struggle for woman suffrage and launched the women’s rights movement, which eventually resulted in dramatic changes in women’s roles in the business world.
As a leader in incorporating African Americans into the trade union movement and working to end discrimination in employment and segregation in the military...
Workers in many industries joined the railroaders in their strike, making this first nationwide strike one of the broadest general strikes in American labor history.
The Pullman strikers not only received better wages as a result of the strike but also were successful in affecting economies in the majority of states throughout the union.
Pension and retirement plans became expected job benefits during the twentieth century, increasing the overhead of employment for many firms but also providing workers with significant income on retirement.
The goal of the National Labor Union was to improve working conditions by campaigning for and helping elect political candidates who promised to push for labor-reform legislation, including passage of laws mandating an eight-hour workday.
The National Labor Relations Board organized and monitored union-recognition elections and protected workers and unions against employers’ unfair practices.
One of the first significant government restrictions placed on American industry, the minimum wage permanently altered the dynamic between employer and employee by guaranteeing a basic level of compensation for most workers.
Since the early twentieth century, a wide variety of management theories have been offered to solve the principal-agent problem so that important objectives of business managers can be achieved.
Through his persistent work and vision as a labor union leader, Lewis helped shape the modern American labor union and boost the financial standing of the average American worker.
