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 | | The NRA did help solidify new and important norms regarding child labor, maximum hours, and other conditions of employment; it will never be known if the same progress could have been made had not industry been more or less hornswoggled into giving ground, using the antitrust laws as bait. |
 | | Those NRA supporters of the representative-cost-based price floor imagined that a range of prices would emerge if such a floor were to be set, whereas detractors believed that "the minimum would become the maximum," that is, the floor would simply be a cartel price, constraining competition across all firms in an industry. |
 | | Recent evaluations of the NRA have wended their way back to themes sounded during the early nineteen thirties, in particular, interrelationships between the so-called "trade practice" or cartelization provisions of the program and the grant of enhanced bargaining power to trade unions. |
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