Part-time jobs were also found for white collar workers; artists painted murals in public buildings and people like John Steinbeck counted dogs. Trying for a national comeback, the National Recovery Administration was formed in order to help with industry, labor, and unemployment. Workers were guaranteed the right to organize and bargain together with their own representative and also forbade businesses from forcing workers to sign an anti-union contract before they were hired.
             The Agricultural Adjustment Administration attempted to form as "artificial scarcity" by giving farmers compensation for growing less acreage. However, the intentional destruction of crops and the use of slaughtered pigs as fertilizer increased scrutiny of a plan that wasted food while so many went hungry. This particular plan failed, but a revision of the original idea succeeded with the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936. This planned to remove acreage from production while conserving the soil from ero
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