Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

Name: Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement
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ISBN: 9780674517820

ISBN-10: 0674517822

ISBN-13: 9780674517820

Edition: 1991

Authors: William E. Forbath

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Why did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American "individualism." In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe's labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Broad ContextsRecasting American ""Exceptionalism""


The State of Courts and Parties



Judicial Review in Labor's Political Culture Samuel


Gompers and in Jacobs Hours Laws in Illinois Hours


Laws in Colorado Pressed toward a Minimalist Politics



Government by Injunction


The Origins and Dimensions of Government by Injunction


The Origins of Governmentby Injunction in Railway Strikes


The Rise and Repression of City-Wide Boycotts



Semi-Outlawry


The Usurpa