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Slave Labor: The Taft-Hartley Act And The Tri-State Mining District, Sally Miller-Downing
Slave Labor: The Taft-Hartley Act And The Tri-State Mining District, Sally Miller-Downing
Theory and Practice: HIST430
Before World War II, there was an unstable atmosphere to the industrial sector of the United States economy. As World War II began the industries settled down, and the production of means for the war boomed, as the employees joined together against the Axis powers. After the war, the sense of duty that many union members felt disappeared and the mining industries began to reveal extensive problems with labor relations. Because of these two factors, the Taft-Hartley act was compiled through a joint committee in June 1947. In the act, there were many provisions made to protect both the employer …