NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT: One of the first acts passed under New Deal program the Roosevelt administration in 1933, it specifically allowed workers to organized into unions and to engage in collective bargaining without interference from firms. This act, going by the acronym NIRA, was declared unconstitutional in 1935, but while in force gave a big boost to labor unions and membership. The National Labor Relations Act was created in 1935 to replace the NIRA. See also | labor union | Norris-LaGuardia Act | open shop | union shop | closed shop | right to work | Taft-Hartley Act | factor market | monopoly | National Labor Relations Act | collective bargaining |
