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Title: Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement by William E. Forbath ISBN: 0-674-51782-2 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Painfully boring but insightful
Comment: I am being forced to read this for a class on American Legal History. It is insightful and the arguments are compelling. The labor movement in the US was influenced to a great degree by the judiciary during the turn of the century decades. Court action changed the character of the labor movement from one of broad social reform to fragmented trade unionism and "Voluntarism." Voluntarism became predominant in labor's legal pretext, in part, due to:
1. "...the courts... principally determined how labor legislation, once passed, would fare."
2. Those legal victores for labor (Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890, etc;) benefitted the institutions that labor was trying to protect itself from.
3. The courts repeatedly upheld "freedom of contract" arguments in In re Jacobs, Ritchie v. People, etc;
4. Judiciary attacked the economic weapons of labor: city-wide boycotts, symapthy strikes, etc;
Labor (AFL, Gompers, etc;) eventually asked for independent labor relations i.e., freedom to negotiate contracts without government intervention...
I believe that sums it up fairly well, but as a fair warning, this book is academic and painfully boring. If given a choice between hammering my balls flat or rereading this book, I would be forced to make a difficult decision indeed.
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Title: The End Of Reform : New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War by Alan Brinkley ISBN: 0679753141 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: City of Courts : Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago by Michael Willrich ISBN: 052179403X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Michael J. Klarman ISBN: 0195129032 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (The Haymarket Series) by Michael Denning ISBN: 1859841708 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 by Robert J. Steinfeld ISBN: 0807854522 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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