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The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960 Book

Christopher Tomlins offers a critical examination of the impact of the National Labor Relations Act on American unions. Dr Tomlins examines both the laws from the late nineteenth-century and the history of the act's passage. He shows how public policy confined labour's role in the American economy and the problems faced by unions that stem from these laws.Read More

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    Fifty years ago, enactment of the Wagner National Labor Relations Act gave American organized labour what it has regarded ever since as one of its greatest assets: a legislative guarantee of the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively. Yet although the Wagner Act's guarantees remain substantially unaltered, organized labour in America today is in deep decline. Addressing this apparent paradox, Christopher Tomlins offers here a critical examination of the impact of the National Labor Relations Act on American unions. By studying the intentions and goals of policymakers in the context of the development of labour law from the late nineteenth-century, and by looking carefully at the course of labour history since the act's passage, Dr Tomlins shows how public policy has been shaped to confine labour's role in the American economy, and that many of the unions' problems stem from the laws, which purport to protect them.

  • 0521314526
  • 9780521314527
  • Christopher Tomlins
  • Cambridge Univ Pr
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
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