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Learning Objectives
economic issues in the history of American labor. > Link the evolution of contemporary human resource (HR) practices to events in labor history. > Assess the effect of current conditions on the practice of HR management. > Formulate hypotheses regarding future HR practices.
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Southern colonies:
> Agriculture > Slaves
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gain increase in wages. > In 1785, New York City shoemakers strike for three weeks.
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Movement for a 10-hour workday. By 1830, one-third of New Englands labor force were children under the age of 16.
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slave labor.
Dramatic industrial growth in the North. Growth of trade unionism. Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Passage of Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. Sharecropping replaces slavery.
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Public support for free land became the Homestead Act of 1862. Klondike stampede. Movement from farm to city. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
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A New Century
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Labor Unrest
Increased industrialization resulted in labor unrest. Employment-at-will doctrine. Blacklists. Yellow-dog contracts. Upton Sinclairs The Jungle. Work accidents shocking toll. Lochner v. New York.
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Labor Unrest
1910: Los Angeles Times building bombed during a strike. Secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers arrested in the bombing. Arrest said to be an attack on unions in particular and labor in general.
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Labor Unrest
Sweatshop labor. Triangle Waist Company Fire of 1911:
> 146 young women and girls died because the
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Discussion Questions
Why did the government get involved with labor conditions? Of the Walsh Reports findings, what parallels can be made to the modern-day workplace?
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enforcement. > The Supreme Court upheld yellow-dog contracts. > Court injunctions were used to break strikes. > Business rights were defined as property.
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Labor no longer merely a factor of production. The rise of the personnel administrator.
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Managing People
Education for industrial relations:
> 1945: University of Minnesota established the Industrial
Relations Center. > 1946: Cornell University established the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Changed to American Society for Training and Development in 1968. > 1948 American Society for Personnel Administration. Changed to Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in 1989.
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(ERISA) > 1978: ADEA amendment > 1978: Pregnancy discrimination protection
Case Law
> 1971: Griggs v. Duke Power > 1978: Concept of sexual harassment
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1985: Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). 1988: Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN).
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Onset of industry:
> Manage factors of production.
Unions:
> Industrial relations professional.
End of WWII:
> Peacetime industry and prosperity. > Personnel administrator.
Global Business:
> Strategic human resource management
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The days of simply maintaining personnel files and advising on hiring, firing and compensation are long gone for HR professionals. Today they fulfill a variety of roles that require knowledge and competencies in areas that were foreign to them in the past.
Salvatore et al. (2005)
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