This article details how minimum wage policies in Puerto Rico facilitated labor market centralization to establish a system of labor relations where labor, capital, and the government trusted each other. That trust, in turn, helped Puerto Rican policy makers to curb wage demands from labor...

Workplace law activists and reformers find it increasingly more difficult to obtain redress for violation of workers' rights. Some of them are calling for stricter enforcement and tougher penalties to bring employers into compliance. However, after seven and half months of participant...

In the United States, union density continues to decline, while income inequality increases. But while union density falls we have experienced the counterintuitive rise in international framework agreements (IFAs), or agreements signed by global union federations (“global unions”) and...

This essay argues that criminalizing “wage theft” fulfills a movement demand. However, because criminal law has historically been used by employers and governments against workers, using it for the cause of workers requires careful deliberation. Moreover, as the prison abolition movement has...

U.S. labor and employment law is broken. Evidence of the decay can be gleaned from the steep decline in unions and collective bargaining, inadequate employment protections, ineffective enforcement of many employment laws, and correlative increases in income inequality and unstable work. Recent...

Social scientists have shown that labor unions helped to maintain economic inequality in check in the United States from about the 1950s until about the 1970s by, inter alia, using their once formidable resources to maintain a moral economy for labor. A moral economy is a package of social and...

State-supported sectoral bargaining through wage boards is gaining traction among some U.S. reformers interested in revitalizing labor unions and labor law. New York has become a celebrated case, but the recent experience there left some activists disappointed.Theoretically, revitalization...

Employer market power is at least partly responsible for the sharp increase in economic inequality in the United States, which threatens the fabric of the republic. Workplace law reform could provide workers with an institutional source of power that countervails employer market power and...

Globalization has led to union decline almost universally across the world's capitalist democracies. But despite globalization, global labor unions have been able to sign International Framework Agreements (“IFAs”) with more than 110 multinational corporations that cover about 9 million...