What was the purpose of the Wagner Act of 1935, from the government's point of view, according to the chapter's analysis?

Correct answer: To provide a legal, controllable channel for labor unrest and stabilize commerce.

Explanation

This question probes the reader's understanding of the text's critical interpretation of the Wagner Act as a tool for system stability.

Other questions

Question 1

What event in February 1919, involving a walkout of 100,000 working people, brought the city of Seattle to a halt for five days?

Question 2

During the Seattle General Strike, how many neighborhood milk stations were set up by the strikers to provide for essential needs?

Question 3

According to the Seattle mayor quoted in Chapter 15, what made the general strike a 'weapon of revolution' even though it was peaceful?

Question 4

In the Centralia, Washington incident of 1919, who was Frank Everett?

Question 5

During the 'Roaring Twenties,' what percentage of families made less than 1000 dollars a year, according to the text?

Question 6

According to John Galbraith, what was the primary cause of the stock market crash of 1929?

Question 7

By 1933, what was the estimated number of unemployed people in the United States?

Question 8

What action did General Douglas MacArthur take against the Bonus Army in Washington D.C. in 1932?

Question 9

According to the chapter, what were the two pressing needs that Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal reforms had to meet?

Question 10

What was the name of the Pennsylvania-based self-help movement where unemployed miners dug coal on company property and sold it at a low rate?

Question 11

In the spring and summer of 1934, what action by longshoremen on the West Coast quickly tied up two thousand miles of Pacific coastline?

Question 12

What new and effective strike tactic began among rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, in the early thirties?

Question 13

What was the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937?

Question 14

According to Richard Cloward and Frances Piven's argument in 'Poor People's Movements,' when did factory workers have their greatest influence and exact the most substantial concessions from government?

Question 15

How many American workers were involved in strikes during World War II, despite the no-strike pledges of the AFL and CIO?

Question 16

The minimum wage law of 1938 established a minimum wage of how much for the first year?

Question 17

What was the purpose of the Federal Arts, Theatre, and Writers' Projects during the New Deal?

Question 18

Despite the New Deal reforms, what was the situation for most black people in the United States?

Question 19

What event on March 19, 1935, demonstrated the explosive conditions in black communities even as New Deal reforms were being passed?

Question 20

In Langston Hughes's poem 'Let America Be America Again,' who are the voices that say America 'never has been yet'?

Question 21

What was the initial number of shipyard workers who went on strike, starting the chain of events that led to the Seattle General Strike?

Question 22

In the poem by Anise about the Seattle strike, what was it that scared the 'business men' the most?

Question 23

In John Steinbeck's novel 'The Grapes of Wrath,' what crime did a homeless, hungry man witness?

Question 24

What was the estimated number of casualties (killed and injured) after General MacArthur's army dispersed the Bonus Army?

Question 25

In the 1934 Minneapolis teamsters' strike, what unique form of support did farmers provide to the strikers and the city's people?

Question 26

How many sit-down strikes were recorded in the year 1937, following the 48 that occurred in 1936?

Question 28

How much did unemployment fall during the New Deal, from 13 million at its start?

Question 29

What event does the chapter credit with putting 'almost everyone to work' after the New Deal's partial success?

Question 30

What was the population of black people living in Harlem in the 1930s?

Question 31

What was the response of many employers to the wave of sit-down strikes in 1937?

Question 32

According to the text, what was the estimated population of the United States in 1900, which had grown from 31 million in 1860?

Question 33

Who was the black farmer from Alabama whose life story, as told in 'All God's Dangers,' illustrates the struggles of sharecroppers and his involvement in the Sharecroppers Union?

Question 34

The CIO, or Congress of Industrial Organizations, was formed after breaking away from what other major labor federation?

Question 35

What was the significance of the year 1944 for labor strikes, according to Jeremy Brecher?

Question 36

What did Yip Harburg, the songwriter of 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?', say the song was really about?

Question 37

After the stock market crash, by what percentage did industrial production fall?

Question 38

What was the result of the textile strike in Rhode Island in 1922, led by Italian and Portuguese workers?

Question 39

In the Gastonia textile strike of 1929, the National Textile Workers Union was notable for what characteristic?

Question 40

Which New Deal program was an unusual example of government-owned enterprise, creating dams and hydroelectric plants?

Question 41

What was the outcome of the 1937 sit-down strike at the Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan?

Question 42

What was the name of the organization formed in 1919 by William Z. Foster to organize steelworkers?

Question 43

How many shipyard workers were initially on strike in Seattle, before the general strike began?

Question 44

According to Merle Curti, why were the protests of the poor in the 1920s not widely or effectively felt?

Question 45

What was the 'Mellon Plan' of 1923?

Question 46

What was the average annual income of a sharecropper in 1935?

Question 47

How many self-help organizations with over 300,000 members existed across thirty-seven states by the end of 1932?

Question 48

What was the primary difference between the Social Security Act and the housing programs of the New Deal?

Question 49

In the general strike in San Francisco in 1934, how many workers were estimated to be on strike, immobilizing the city?

Question 50

What happened to the IWW leadership during the period when the Seattle General Strike occurred in 1919?