HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 24 Outline of Last Lecture I CCC TVA AAA II SEC III Social Security Act IV WPA Outline of Current Lecture I NLRA Wagner Act Magna Carta of Labor II Fair Labor Standard Act III Dust Bowl IV Court Packing Current Lecture NLRA Wagner Act Magna Carta of Labor National Labor Relations Act otherwise known as the Wagner Act for the Senator who created it It basically allowed private sector employees the ability to have unions and make the employers bargain with them for better conditions Magna Carta is the first document to attempt to limit the King of England s power in 1215 It was written by his subjects In this context it s unions attempts at limiting the power of their employers Fair Labor Standard Act This act is what gave us the 40 hour work week overtime with time and a half pay an age requirement to work and minimum wage Dust Bowl Farmers had over farmed their land leaching the soil This created dust as well as leaving the land infertile Severe drought and wind erosion also loosened soil When the wind blew across the prairies it would pick up massive amounts of dirt and blow it across the country You could suffocate easily if you did not seek shelter and plug all the cracks in your home Court Packing These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute FDR made it so the president could appoint a new Supreme Court justice if one was over 70 years old and refused to retire He could do this to six at a time It was highly controversial
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