Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law / / ed. by Rudolph A. Oswald, Richard W. Hurd, Ronald L. Seeber, Sheldon Friedman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Roy J.,; Azari-Rad, Hamid,; Block, Richard N.,; Brody, David,; Bronfenbrenner, Kate L.,; Bruce, Peter G.,; Carré, Françoise J.,; Chaison, Gary N.,; Cobble, Dorothy Sue,; Collins, Nancy,; Comstock, Phil,; Fox, Maier B.,; Friedman, Sheldon,; Greenfield, Patricia,; Gross, James A.,; Gruenberg, Gladys W.,; Hartmann, Heidi,; Hurd, Richard W.,; Kleiner, Morris M.,; Moberly, Robert B.,; Oswald, Rudolph A.,; Pavy, Gordon R.,; Philips, Peter,; Pleasure, Robert J.,; Richardson, Charley,; Rogers, Joel,; Rose, Joseph B.,; Rundle, James R.,; Seeber, Ronald L.,; Spalter-Roth, Roberta,; Tilly, Chris,; Uehlein, Joseph B.,; Wial, Howard,; Yeagle, Anne,; duRivage, Virginia,
• HerausgeberIn: Friedman, Sheldon,; Hurd, Richard W.,; Oswald, Rudolph A.,; Seeber, Ronald L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Context for the Reform of Labor Law -- PART I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 1. Reforming U.S. Labor Relations -- 2. Section 8(a)(2) and the Origins of the Wagner Act -- 3. The Demise of the National Labor Policy: A Question of Social Justice -- PART II. ORGANIZING AND THE LAW -- 4. Patterned Responses to Organizing: Case Studies of the Union-Busting Convention -- 5. Employer Behavior in Certification Elections and First-Contract Campaigns: Implications for Labor Law Reform -- 6. Employer Tactics and Labor Law Reform -- 7. Winning NLRB Elections and Establishing Collective Bargaining Relationships -- PART III. REFORMING THE NLRA -- 8. Toward Fundamental Change in U.S. Labor Law: A Law Reform Framework -- 9. What Will It Take? Establishing the Economic Costs to Management of Noncompliance with the NLRA -- 10. Worker Participation after Electromation and DuPont -- 11. The Debate over the Ban on Employer-Dominated Labor Organizations: What Is the Evidence? -- 12. Status of Workers' Rights to Bargain Collectively -- PART IV. THE OUTCOMES OF BARGAINING RELATIONSHIPS -- 13. What Do Unions Do for Women? -- 14. The Effects of the Repeal of Utah's Prevailing Wage Law on the Labor Market in Construction -- 15. The Role ofTechnology in Undermining Union Strength -- PART V. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- 16. The Canadian Perspective on Workers' Rights to Form a Union and Bargain Collectively -- 17. Reforming U.S. Labor Law and Collective Bargaining: Some Proposals Based on the Canadian System -- 18. Union Certification as an Instrument of Labor Policy: A Comparative Perspective -- 19. On the Status of Workers' Rights to Organize in the United States and Canada -- PART VI. FRAMEWORKS FOR CHANGE -- 20. Making Postindustrial Unionism Possible -- 21. New Bargaining Structures for New Forms of Business Organization -- 22. Representing the Part-Time and Contingent Workforce: Challenges for Unions and Public Policy -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index