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The Employee
In the present age of temp work, telecommuting, and outsourcing, millions of workers in the United States find themselves excluded from the category of \"employee\"-a crucial distinction that would otherwise permit unionization and collective bargaining. Tracing the history of the term since its entry into the public lexicon in the nineteenth century, Jean-Christian Vinel demonstrates that the legal definition of \"employee\" has always been politically contested and deeply affected by competing claims on the part of business and labor. Unique in the Western world, American labor law is premised on the notion that \"no man can serve two masters\"-workers owe loyalty to their employer, which in many cases is incompatible with union membership.The Employee: A Political Historyhistoricizes this American exception to international standards of rights and liberties at work, revealing a little known part of the business struggle against the New Deal. Early on, progressives and liberals developed a labor regime that, intending to restore amicable relations between employer and employee, sought to include as many workers as possible in the latter category. But in the 1940s this language of social harmony met with increasing resistance from businessmen, who pressed their interests in Congress and the federal courts, pushing for an ever-narrower definition of \"employee\" that excluded groups such as foremen, supervisors, and knowledge workers. A cultural and political history of American business and law,The Employeesheds historical light on contemporary struggles for economic democracy and political power in the workplace.
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Broken Promise
The Wagner Act of 1935 (later the Wagner-Taft-Hartley Act of 1947) was intended to democratize vast numbers of American workplaces: the federal government was to encourage worker organization and the substitution of collective bargaining for employers' unilateral determination of vital work-place matters. Yet this system of industrial democracy was never realized; the promise was \"broken.\" In this rare inside look at the process of government regulation over the last forty-five years, James A. Gross analyzes why the promise of the policy was never fulfilled. Gross looks at how the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) policy-making has been influenced by the President, the Congress, the Supreme Court, public opinion, resistance by organized employers, the political and economic strategies of organized labor, and the ideological dispositions of NLRB appointees. This book provides the historical perspective needed for a reevaluation of national labor policy. It delineates where we are now, how we got here, and what fundamental questions must be addressed if policy-makers are to make changes consistent with the underlying principles of democracy.
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Law and the shaping of the American labor movement
In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, Forbath challenges the notion of American \"individualism.\" He shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial in reshaping labor's outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.
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Freedom bound : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865
\"Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America. It is a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The racketeer's progress : Chicago and the struggle for the modern American economy, 1900-1940
Andrew Wender Cohen examines the contested & contingent origins of the modern American economy. He looks at how in the early 20th century tradesmen combined to thwart the ambitions of national corporations, at the origins of unionism, & at the influence of racketeering.
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