Year
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
Number of Members
2,857,000
3,728,000
3,753,000
4,107,000
5,780,000
8,265,000
8,980,000
8,944,000
10,489,000
10,762,000
13,642,000
14,621,000
14,796,000
How does the information in the chart reflect the changes in American labor?
before the 1940’s, unions did not admit woman, African-Americans, or other minority workers.
until the late 1930s, unions were only present in the industrialized Northeast
during World War II, the federal government require employers to accept unions