A ciò fece seguito una serie di misure atte ad unire e tenere compatti la Great Society ed il New Deal, ponendo i lavoratori in una posizione contrattuale estremamente debole anche nelle successive espansioni economiche. ###>This opening salvo was followed by a raft of measures that could best be summarized as successively gutting the Great Society and New Deal social compacts, leaving labor in a weak bargaining position even in subsequent economic expansions.