Capital, Labor, and State
The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
Seiten
2000
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-9729-8 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-9729-8 (ISBN)
This examination of American labour policy demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labour conditions in the 1900's, the US continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions.
Capital, Labor, and State is a systematic and thorough examination of American labor policy from the Civil War to the New Deal. David Brian Robertson skillfully demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labor conditions in the 1900s, the United States continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions. Robertson argues that the American constitution made it much more difficult for the American Federation of Labor, government, and business to cooperate for mutual gain as extensively as their counterparts abroad, so that even at the height of New Deal, American labor market policy remained a patchwork of limited protections, uneven laws, and poor enforcement, lacking basic national standards even for child labor.
Capital, Labor, and State is a systematic and thorough examination of American labor policy from the Civil War to the New Deal. David Brian Robertson skillfully demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labor conditions in the 1900s, the United States continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions. Robertson argues that the American constitution made it much more difficult for the American Federation of Labor, government, and business to cooperate for mutual gain as extensively as their counterparts abroad, so that even at the height of New Deal, American labor market policy remained a patchwork of limited protections, uneven laws, and poor enforcement, lacking basic national standards even for child labor.
David Brian Robertson is associate professor of political science at University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Chapter 1 The Battle Between Capital and Labor in America
Chapter 2 American Labor Market Policy, Strategy, and Political Institutions
Chapter 3 Labor and Regulation, 1865-1900
Chapter 4 The AFL Confronts Employers
Chapter 5 Employer's Counterattack
Chapter 6 The AFL's Strategic Retreat and Its Consequences
Chapter 7 Limitations of Labor Market Regulation
Chapter 8 Confining Trade Union Powers
Chapter 9 Marginalizing Labor Market Management
Chapter 10 Circumscribing Work Insurance
Chapter 11 The American Model of Labor Market Policy
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.10.2000 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8476-9729-0 / 0847697290 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8476-9729-8 / 9780847697298 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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