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Laborer Impacts of Changes to the Economy

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boost their wages and improve their quality of life in the workplace. It was thought that there was strength in numbers; the more workers who gathered together for fair treatment,  the more management would be willing to listen to their complaints and maybe do something about them. It was during the early 20th century, in fact, that saw eight-hour work  days, safety in the workplace laws and the rise of wage negotiation and collective bargaining in order to keep workers happy. In 1901, however, the leadership of the infant unions  had no way of knowing that 100 years later, other challenges would cause a change in the workforce, a change in corporate business and even a change in how unions  operate. Yet in these days of deregulation, globalization, consolidation and high technology, it seems as though those who suffer are the blue-collar workers - the factory workers and others -  as well as those labor unions to which they belong. In the overall history of the corporate United States, the concept of  organized labor is relatively new. Although the first unions could be found during Revolutionary War days, it wasnt until mass production and the industrialized society occurred during the late 19th  and early 20th centuries that workers began believing that they, too, had rights. Throughout the prosperous 20s and into the Depression-laden 1930s, unions continued to grow, as workers believed that  their path to a better life was through membership in an organized labor group. Unions and organized labor reached their heyday in the period directly following World War II, during  which, it seemed, most skilled laborers were also union members and thus, the unions, through the National Labor Relations Board (i.e., the government), had its hands on the neck of