The National Labor Relations Act

One of the most significant examples of social development has been the quest for equity in employment.3 The National Labor Relations Act became law in the United States in 1935. The Act gave employees the right to form, join, or assist labor organizations to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. For the first three decades of the Act's existence, however, it was used primarily to promote the interests of equity in employment for white men. By the end of the 1960s, most of the overt discrimination against women and members of ethnic and racial minorities, both men and women, had been eliminated. Discrimination in employment remained, however, as women and members of ethnic and racial minorities, both men

1George R. Gray, and Darrel R. Brown, "Comparable Worth Updated," Compensation & Benefits Management, 8 (Winter 1991), 1-7.

2Barry Gerhart, and Nabil E. Cheikh, "Earnings and Percentage Female," Industrial Relations, 3

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umrosen, "Wage Discrimination, Job Segregation, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 12 (1979), 397-502. 6Graham and Hyde, 799-821. comparable worth, there is one thing that the discussion of the concept has most certainly done. It has focused the attention of scholars, researchers, theorists, politicians, economists, societal interest groups, and others on the comparative values of different jobs in the society. Organizations large and small have been placed in positions of having to justify the wage levels of the different classes of employees within their organizational structures, although not all organizations cooperate with the process.7 The comparable worth concept has been employed, thus far, primarily in behalf of women. It is to be anticipated, however, that the concept will be employed ever more often in the future in behalf of minority group members, as well as in behalf of women. The adoption of the comparable worth concept does not mean that women and minorities no longer are interested in equal pay for equal work or that they are no longer interested in affirmative action programs. The adoption does mean that the concept's ad
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