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  2. Dispatched labor - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Belgium, France, UK, the Netherlands, Norway and America already had the service of labor dispatching, and most well-established dispatched work agencies were founded at during this period. In Japan, labor dispatching emerged in 1965.

  3. History of union busting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Nathan Shefferman (Labor Relations Associates), 1940s1950s [ edit ] After passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, the first nationally known union busting agency was Labor Relations Associates of Chicago, Inc. (LRA) founded in 1939 by Nathan Shefferman, who later in 1961 wrote The Man in the Middle, a guide to union busting , and has been ...

  4. Women in the United States labor force from 1945 to 1950

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    Labor-saving devices lowered the time cost of homemaking. Expanding high school and college education better prepared women for employment. There was also a decline in the stigma that a husband's worth was less if the wife worked. [2] The divorce rate was still low in the 1940s and '50s and less important as a factor.

  5. Labor history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Labor unions were a whole high-profile target of Republican activists throughout the 1940s and 1950s, especially the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. Both the business community and local Republicans wanted to weaken unions, which played a major role in funding and campaigning for Democratic candidates. [164]

  6. Timeline of labour issues and events - Wikipedia

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    The Act went into effect in October 1940, and was upheld in the Supreme Court on 3 February 1941. 1939 (United States) Chrysler Auto Strike occurred. [40] Flint Sit-Down Strike window 1939 (United States) General Motors Tool and Die Makers' Strike occurred. [40] 27 February 1939 (United States) The Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes are ...

  7. Communist Party USA and American labor movement (1937–1950)

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    The CP has had only negligible influence in labor since its supporters' defeat in internal union political battles in the aftermath of World War II and the Congress of Industrial Organizations's (CIO) expulsion of unions in which the party held the most influence in 1950. The expelled parties were often raided by stronger unions, and most ...

  8. List of striking United States workers by year - Wikipedia

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    In 1915, the Bureau of Labor Statistics had formed a more systemized set of data collection. Data on the number of workers involved remained a rough estimate but more consistent. [ 5 ] : 195, (203 in pdf) The data however also included strikes with fewer than six workers involved, likely leading to slightly higher worker estimates.

  9. Category:1940s labor disputes and strikes - Wikipedia

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