How did government recognition of the rights of labor transform the movement and the lives of workers?

Let’s talk about the New Deal – the wide range of laws and policies passed by the Roosevelt administration in the Great Depression.
How did government recognition of the rights of labor transform the movement and the lives of workers?
What was left out?
Also, don’t forget to read pp. 13-24 of Helgeson for this section.

Paterson Silk Strike, 1913