LEGACY
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history." The assembly line began sowing the seeds of worker discontent, but it took until the advent of the Great Depression in 1929 for the workers to formally unionize. It was under the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt that the government finally acted and put in place legislation protecting workers' rights. Three of these acts were the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Fair Employment Act. This legislation established responsibilities for employers in order to protect the workers' rights.
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