Taft-Hartley Act

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Passage

The Taft-Hartley Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1947, gave states the power to enact “right-to-work” legislation that prohibits union shop agreements. According to such an agreement, a labor union negotiates wages and working conditions for all workers in a business, and all workers are required to belong to the their suppliers can act collusively in competitive labor markets, thus lowering wages in the affected industries.

Such a finding has important implications regarding the demographics of employment and wages in right-to-work states. Specifically, if right-to-work laws lower wages by weakening union power, minority workers can be expected to suffer a relatively greater economic disadvantage in right-to-work states than in union shop states. This is so because, contrary to there is strong economic growth in right-to-work states, creating labor shortages and thereby driving up wages.

What this question is testing

Analogy

Your task

Pin down exactly what the question asks about the passage — a detail, the author's view, the structure, or the main point — before looking at the choices.

Common trap

Answers that restate a true detail from the passage but don't answer the specific question being asked.

Winning move

Anticipate the answer in your own words from the passage, then find the choice that matches that prediction.

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The question

The reasoning behind the “literature” (first paragraph), as that reasoning is presented in the passage, is most analogous to the reasoning behind which one

Answer choices

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Why this is right
Answer E is correct.
Skill tested: Analogy · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.
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