Board #13 - Right to Work is Wrong for Labor: A Study on the Effects of Right to Work Legislation Through a Comparison of Pennsylvania and Michigan from 2013 to 2023

• In Event: 71-300 - Poster Session: Causes and Consequences of Policies

Brief Overview

This study traces the roots of the right to work ideology from the critiques of wage laborers in the Jacksonian era to the Taft-Hartley Amendments of Wagner Act and then analyzes their effects through a comparison of Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Author

• Jayce Dakota Gatlin, Southwestern Oklahoma State University