Question

How did the New Deal support labour organisations?

Answer 1

Hint:
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented a number of policies, public works initiatives, financial reforms, and legislation between 1933 and 1939, known as the New Deal.
- During his first term in office, the New Deal initiatives contained both congressional legislation and presidential executive orders.

Complete answer:
The New deal supported labour organisation, following legislations were introduced:
 - The National Labor Relations Act, which protected labour organising, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) relief programme (which made the federal government the nation's largest employer), The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act, gave employees the freedom to form their own unions and bargain collectively. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was also created by the Act to promote wage negotiations and to prevent labour unrest. The Social Security Act and new schemes to help tenant farmers and migrant workers were all part of the Second New Deal in 1935–1936.
- The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act established maximum hours and minimum wages for most jobs. For most jobs, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established maximum hours (44 per week) and minimum wages (25 cents per hour). Children under the age of 16 were prohibited from working, and children under the age of 18 were prohibited from working in hazardous conditions.
- Outcomes of the New deal included reform of wall street, relief for farmers and unemployed; social security; political power shift to the democratic new deal coalition.

Note: The initiatives were focused around what historians refer to as the "3 Rs": unemployment and poverty reduction, economic growth, and financial system reform to avoid a repeat depression.