WORKERS' PARADOX by Ruth O'Brien ( 9780807847374 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

WORKERS' PARADOX
THE REPUBLICAN ORIGINS OF NEW DEAL LABOR POLICY, 1886-1935

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ISBN 10:

0807847372

ISBN 13:

9780807847374

Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Pub. date:

26 October, 1998

Pages:

336

Description:

This text reinterprets the roots of 20th-century American labour law and politics, claiming that Republicans developed the fundamental principles, not New Deal Democrats. It demonstrates the establishment of procedural rights of workers in Republican-formulated labour legislation of the 1920s.

Synopsis:

Reinterpreting the roots of twentieth-century American labor law and politics, Ruth O'Brien argues that it was not New Deal Democrats but rather Republicans of an earlier era who developed the fundamental principles underlying modern labor policy. By examining a series of judicial rulings from the first three decades of the century, she demonstrates that the emphasis on establishing the procedural rights of workers that is usually associated with the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 actually emerged over a decade earlier, in the Republican-formulated labor legislation of the 1920s. O'Brien's findings underscore a paradox within the foundation of labor policy and the development of liberalism in the United States. The leaders of the liberal state created a strict regulatory framework for organized labor only after realizing that the mainstream labor movement's capacity for collective power threatened to undermine individualism and classlessness in American society. In other words, O'Brien argues, the individualism that accounts for the overall weakness of the liberal state also produced America's statist labor policy. |A reinterpretation of the roots of 20th-century American labor law and politics. O'Brien uses early 20th judicial rulings to show that it was not New Deal Republicans who developed the principles behind modern labor policy.

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The University of North Carolina Press

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