Broken Promise : The Subversion Of U.S. Labor Relations Paperback / softback
by James Gross
Part of the Labor And Social Change series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 \u0022broken.\u0022 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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:14/07/2003
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- ISBN:9781592132256
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:14/07/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9781592132256
