Roosevelt believed he could end the depression with one act when it came to recovering the economy; he introduced to congress what was known as the National Industrial Recovery Act which in turn established the National Recovery Administration (NRA). The NRA acted primarily against the big businesses and for the employees, it acted as a third party arbitration between employers and the unions on issues such as negotiating salary and working conditions (hours, breaks, etc...
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The NRA also fixed prices on goods along with standards on the quantity of certain products made by a single company. Stephanie Fitzgerald talks of this in her book The New Deal "The government had never been more deeply involved in the practices of individual businesses before." (Fitzgerald 59). Evidentially the NRA failed to bring the country out of the depression and was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court during Roosevelt's second term...
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