Labor rights are proving to be a key issue in the 2020 election cycle.
domestic workers and agricultural laborers, two low-wage sectors dominated by women and people of color, from the NLRA, along with most other New Deal programs.
At the time the NLRA was enacted, nearly half of Black men and a significant number of Mexican American men, Native American men and Asian American men and women worked in agricultural and domestic work, and domestic work had the highest concentration of women of color. For Black women, the intersection of identities ensured that
by labor law carveouts: 90 percent of Black women worked either as a domestic worker or in agriculture in the 1930s.of New Deal legislation, and paved the way for anti-discrimination laws in the 1960s and 1970s to exclude domestic workers.
Second, labor law reforms must acknowledge, and correct for, how unequal power dynamics baked into our laws have deliberately maintained racial and gendered hierarchies in our society. In the New Deal era, powerful Southern white landowners exercised control over policymaking institutions and built their interests into the foundational elements of our labor laws. In a new era of concentrated wealth and power, we must take deliberate steps not to recreate these dynamics.
Carveouts from labor law are not just a historical injustice—they are impacting an increasingly broad swath of workers. Although they are technically included in the NLRA, undocumented workers and temporary workers’ rights to organize have been severely
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