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Article: Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement.
- Article from:
- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1992
- Author:
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During the past two decades an enormous body of literature has appeared in legal journals and law reviews exploring the impact of the law on both industrial relations in the United States and the policies and practices of the labor movement. Much of the best of such literature has focused on the conservative implications of the New Deal revolution in labor law, and how after World War II judge-made labor law increasingly narrowed the terrain on which workers and their unions battled their adversaries. In the words of one of the wisest scholars on the subject, Christopher L. Tomlins, even the most emancipatory of labor laws offered workers "only a counterfeit liberty."(1) ...