Tripartite Cooperation Weir introduces her book with the intention of showing the patterns of employment policy in America throughout the middle of the twentieth century. She aims to show how the lack of cooperation among government, labor, and business defeated or weakened nearly all employment legislation. Each of these factors has the ability to block or alter legislation to the point that it does not accomplish its objective. Government can veto employment legislation. Labor and business, as special interest groups, lobby to prevent certain legislation.
Labor works for favorable employer-employee relations.
Business, however, pushes for legislation that will allow the greatest profit, or no legislation at all. Without the cooperation of the two interests in conjunction with federal approval, no effective employment policy can be derived. In the early 1930s, America sank deeply into the Depression. The accepted methods for combating recession had been to use a form of economic planning. Businesses were asked to pace their production to meet the demand for labor.