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Broken Promise: The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations
By (author) James Gross
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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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Publisher | Temple University Press,U.S.
Published date | 14 Jul 2003
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 424
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-5921-3225-6
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BISAC | social science / sociology / general
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