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Labor Movement of the 1930's, The
Professor of history Gary Gerstle talks about the rise of organized labor in the 1930's, when the Great Depression cost millions of Americans their jobs. He explains that, in 1935, President Roosevelt engineered two of the most important pieces of l...
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Supreme Court in the 1930's, The
Professor of history Gary Gerstle talks about Franklin D. Roosevelt's efforts to "pack the Supreme Court" with justices he believed would be sympathetic to his legislative agenda, particularly the Wagner Act and the Social Security Act.. Although Ro...