Editing Yellow-dog contract (section)

{{Short description|Work contract where an employee agrees to not join a trade union}}
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A '''yellow-dog contract''' (a '''yellow-dog clause''' of a [[contract]], also known as an '''ironclad oath''')<ref>{{cite web |title=37b. Labor vs. Management |url=https://www.ushistory.org/us/37b.asp |website=U.S. History |publisher=Independence Hall Association |access-date=11 October 2021}}</ref> is an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a [[trade union|labor union]].<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Doctrinal Synergies and Liberal Dilemmas: The Case of the Yellow-Dog Contract|url=https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2254&context=law_faculty_scholarship|journal=Notre Dame Law School}}</ref>  In the United States, such contracts were used by employers to prevent the formation of unions, most often by permitting employers to take [[civil suit|legal action]] against [[union organizer]]s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Witte |first1=Eden |title=Yellow Dog Contracts |journal=Wisconsin Law Review |date=1930 |volume=6 |page=21}}</ref>  In 1932, yellow-dog contracts were [[Law of the United States|outlawed]] in the United States under the [[Norris-LaGuardia Act]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/CAE/06-01.pdf |title=Coercion, Contract and the Limits of the Market |work=CAE Working Paper #06-01 |first=Kaushik |last=Basu |date=January 2006}}</ref><ref>Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., ''The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933'', (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1957), pp. 238–239</ref>