Title: Labor Embattled
First published: March 29, 2005
Description: Explores recent developments affecting American workers in light of labor's past. Of special concern is the erosion of the rights of workers under the modern labor law, which Brody argues is rooted in the original formulation of the Wagner Act. Brody explains how the ideals of free labor, free speech, freedom of association, and freedom of contract have been interpreted and canonized in ways that unfailingly reduce the capacity for workers' collective action while silently removing impediments to employers coercion of workers. He combines legal and labor history to reveal how laws designed to undergird workers' rights now essentially hamstring them. [Publisher web site].
Subjects: Labor movement, Labor unions, Labor laws and legislation, Syndicats, Arbeitsrecht, Travailleurs, Histoire, Gewerkschaft, Arbeiterbewegung, Arbeidsverhoudingen, Droit du travail, Vakbeweging, Labor movement, united states, Labor unions, united states, Labor laws and legislation, united states