Just thought I would clarify some things about the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) that confused me and may have confused others.
1. Its main goal was to raise prices of things because of a large deflation known as the Great Depression
2. It guaranteed trade union rights. This meant that if a company hired a union, they had to acknowledge its assistance and not fire a couple of its members per say. Before this, companies allowed people to form unions, but completely ignored the union as a whole, treating everyone as individual workers instead.
3. The NIRA also regulated working standards so there weren't any unhealthy dangerous factory work areas, like before.
4. Also, the act regulated the price of resources and their transportation. This regulated the workers' wages, because they remained fairly constant due to the semi-constant price of resources and their transportation.
5. Another part that is very important is that the Public Works Administration (PWA) was created by the NIRA.
6. The PWA funded public projects. Public projects include building bridges, roads, etc.
So it looks like NIRA was actually nullified by the Supreme Court in 1935 as unconstitutional. However, a lot of these regulations are still in place and enforced in labor. It looks like a lot of these regulations actually came back in Roosevelt's second new deal, in the form of the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act.
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The NIRA was passed in 1933 and was used to allow the president to regulate industry and try to raise prices and stimulate a recovery in economy. It was enacted as a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program. However as Nathan has said in his comment, it was nullified in 1935 by the Supreme Court and was not replaced.
ReplyDeleteTo add on to Nathan's comment: After the NIRA was repealed by the SCOTUS, it did reappear in even more ways in the United States. For example, the clause regarding Union rights later inspired the Wagner Act. Also, the health and safety codes of the NIRA live on even to today. While it was repealed and deemed unconstitutional, the NIRA does still impact today's America.
ReplyDeleteAs we probably all know, the NRA was created with the NIRA. But in terms of what it did (the NRA) how does it fit in with all this agenda? Or better, which of these tasks was seen more as the NRA's responsibility
ReplyDeleteThanks for clarifying on the NIRA and its goals and policies, and also on its termination, Stephen, I also noted the NRA's creation by NIRA. I was wondering this too, and based on "Freedom From Fear," it seems to me that the NRA seemed to be more or less the cornerstone of NIRA. Its main purpose was "government-sanctioned cartelization," (FFF, 151) meaning that it implemented many government controls on industry and production. This meant the power to shift wages, extend or cut working hours, control the volume of production, and adjust the prices on goods. As we read on in the chapter, we come to understand how the control and extra money produced by the NRA's control was complemented by the PWA's ability to spend this money for the nation's good and the AAA's creation of balance between industry and agriculture with this.
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"Freedom From Fear" Chapter 5