Only one place of redress
Subtitle: African Americans, labor regulations, and the courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
By: David E. Bernstein.
Series: Constitutional conflicts
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Durham [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History; African Americans -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- History
Description: "In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment of those who lacked political power. Both intentionally and incidentally, claims Bernstein, these laws restricted in particular the job mobility and economic opportunity of blacks."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-182) and index.