New Law Cuts Workweek, Bans After-Hours Contact and Bans Pay Cuts

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15. FDR's New Deal was a response to a socialist movement in the U.S.

During the 1930s the economy was so bad it looked like US workers might revolt and start demanding European-style socialism. So the New Deal was enacted to give the workers some rights and stave off a revolution.

During the 1960s the same movement started to arise again. As countries in Africa were freed of colonialist control they considered becoming communist. Well, we couldn't have that so LBJ pushed through the Great Society and Civil Rights Acts.

The U.S., founded in slavery and genocide, is always playing catchup for workers' rights but this time we're really falling behind.