National Industrial Recovery Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
- Workers are allowed to unionize.
- no employee and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union
- No unfair amount of hours.
- Regulated hours per hour of pay.
- More people could work if some are only allowed a max amount of hours. More are employed.
- There is an established minimum amount of pay required for workers.
- Businesses are required to pay this wage so people could make a living.
- Less Hoovervilles
- Relocated individuals would be able to have a home, raise crops, and make a living on these farms.
- $400 Million provided for the construction of highways, roadways, bridges, crossings and paths.
- More roadways can lead to easier trade and movement.
- Allowed the PWA to give out grants and loans to various states and places that needed funding for lands, materials, and public works.
Relief
Bank Holiday: closed all banks and allowed the government to investigate them to make sure they were functioning as they were meant to.
Civil Works Administration: Money to fund states and schools.
Civil Conservation Corps: Provided Jobs and relocation for young men who had returned from the war.
Works Progress Administration: hired many unemployed and funded public projects so that people were able to work and receive money for them.
Recovery
National Industrial Recovery Act: Devised a plan to regulate industries and established codes.
Abandonment of gold standard: Allowed for more money to get into the circulation of the government.
Reform
Social Security Act: Provided money for unemployed, aged, handicapped, and dependent. Allowed those in debt to recover slowly and get money and compensation.
Tennessee Valley Authority: Provided electricity to rural pockets of land that lacked the money to pay for it. Allowed for more electricity and industry to spread.
Wagner Act: Allowed labor rights to bargain for wages, hours, and working conditions.
Tennessee Valley Authority: Provided electricity to rural pockets of land that lacked the money to pay for it. Allowed for more electricity and industry to spread.
Wagner Act: Allowed labor rights to bargain for wages, hours, and working conditions.