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