History of Alternative Dispute Resolution The Story of a Political, Social, and Cultural Movement

Name: History of Alternative Dispute Resolution The Story of a Political, Social, and Cultural Movement
Price: 9.0 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780787967963

ISBN-10: 0787967963

ISBN-13: 9780787967963

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jerome T. Barrett, Joseph Barrett

List price: $57.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $48.18

Marketplace

3 new & used from $9.00

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution offers a comprehensive review of the various types of peaceful practices for resolving conflicts. Written by Jerome Barrett_a longtime practitioner, innovator, and leading historian in the field of ADR_and his son Joseph Barrett, this volume traces the evolution of the ADR process and offers an overview of the precursors to ADR, including negotiation, arbitration, and mediation. The authors explore the colorful beginnings of ADR using illustrative examples from prehistoric Shaman through the European Law Merchant. In addition, the book offers the historical context for the use of ADR in the arenas of diplomacy and business.

Book details

List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/5/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.37" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


List of Acronyms


ADR Timeline



The Roots of ADR: The Deciding Stone to the European Law Merchant



Diplomatic ADR: Akhenaton to Woodrow Wilson



ADR Comes to America: The Precolonial Period to the Ten-Hour Day



The Civil War: The Limits and the Promise of ADR



Commercial and Business ADR: The Phoenicians to the American Arbitration Association



Employee and Union Struggles: Reconstruction to the Coal Wars



Trains and a World War: Pulling ADR into the Twentieth Century



Labor-Management ADR, 1920-1945: Bust and Boom



After the War: Taft-Hartley to the Steel Trilogy



Branching Out: ADR in the 1960s



New Rights and New Forms: ADR in the 1970s



Outside the Federal Realm: New Groups Pick Up the ADR Torch



Crisis and Rebirth: Labor-Management ADR in the 1980s



The Era of Win-Win: Nonlabor ADR Becomes a Force of Its Own



The Great Expansion: ADR in the 1990s



ADR and the Twenty-First Century: Threats and Hopes


Bibliography


About the Authors


Index