Law and the shaping of the American labor movement
Published:
1991
Publisher:
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Broad Contexts -- Recasting American “Exceptionalism� -- The State of Courts and Parties -- 2. Judicial Review in Labor's Political Culture -- Samuel Gompers and In re Jacobs -- Hours...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Broad Contexts -- Recasting American “Exceptionalism� -- The State of Courts and Parties -- 2. Judicial Review in Labor's Political Culture -- Samuel Gompers and In re Jacobs -- Hours Laws in Illinois -- Hours Laws in Colorado -- Pressed toward a Minimalist Politics -- 3. Government by Injunction -- The Origins and Dimensions of Government by Injunction -- The Origins of Government by Injunction in Railway Strikes -- The Rise and Repression of City-Wide Boycotts -- 4. Semi-Outlawry The Usurpation of Local PolitiesCourts and the Uses of Police, Guards and Troops -- Labor's Resort to Injunctions -- 5. The Language of the Law and the Remaking of Labor's Rights Consciousness -- “Labor's Whole Gospel Is Liberty of Contract� -- Labor's Constitution -- A Great Popular Defiance -- Anti-Injunction Laws before Norris-LaGuardia -- The Norris-LaGuardia Act -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Labor Legislation in the Courts, 1885�1930 -- Appendix B: Approximating the Numbers of Labor Injunctions and Their Relation to Other Strike Statistics, 1880�1930
"An earlier version of this work appeared in the Harvard law review 102, no. 6 (April 1989)"--Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
