Organizing of Teaching Faculty in Private Higher Education Bucks a Long-Standing Historical Trend in American Unionization

摘要

As the New Deal and the Second World War raised American industry out of the depths ofthe Great Depression to the pinnacle of international supremacy from 1933 through 1945, so toodid organized labor achieve unprecedented—indeed, undreamed of—power, prestige, andmembership numbers. By 1947, so numerous were labor unions’ ranks and so potent its leadersthat Senator Robert Taft (Mr. Conservative) successfully led the enactment of the Taft-HartleyAct… the National Labor Relations Act’s first and still most sweeping revision.