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A yellow-dog contract (a yellow-dog clause of a contract, also known as an ironclad oath)[1] 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 labor union.[2] In the United States, such contracts were used by employers to prevent the formation of unions, most often by permitting employers to take legal action against union organizers.[3] In 1932, yellow-dog contracts were outlawed in the United States under the Norris-LaGuardia Act.[4][5]
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- ^ Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933, (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1957), pp. 238–239