The New Deal, collective bargaining, and the triumph of industrial pluralism.
This paper addresses what the author views as a prevailing misconception of labor law theorists and practitioners: that the goal of the Wagner Act was no more than the promotion of peaceful negotiating procedures and written agreements between organized interests-unions and employers-presumptively equal in power. The author argues that in fact the NLRA was drafted, and for a time implemented, with the avowed purpose of giving workers equality with employers in all aspects of industrial policy making, and that the now-prevalent approach became ascendant only after considerable conflict and the displacement of the Act's original administrators. (Abstract courtesy JSTOR.)
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1985
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Authors: | Tomlins, Christopher L. |
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Industrial and Labor Relations Review. - School of Industrial & Labor Relations, ISSN 0019-7939. - Vol. 39.1985, 1, p. 19-34
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations |
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