The Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009665278 (ISBN)
The Kansas Court of Industrial Relations, founded in 1920, was the lone US trial of a labor court – a policy design used almost everywhere else in the industrialized world during the interwar period. What led Kansas to establish the KCIR when no other state did? And what were the consequences of its existence for the development of economic policy in the rest of the country? Ben Merriman explores how the KCIR's bans on strikes and lockouts, heavy criminal sanctions, and unilateral control over the material terms of economic life, resulted in America's closest practical encounter with fascism. Battered by the Supreme Court in 1923, the KCIR's failure destroyed American interest in labor courts. But the legal battles and policy divisions about the KCIR, which enjoyed powerful supporters, were an early sign of the new political and intellectual alignments that led to America's unique New Deal labor policy.
Ben Merriman is Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. Merriman is the author of Conservative Innovators: How States are Challenging Federal Power, as well as articles on political and administrative matters in the American Journal of Sociology, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Politics & Society, and Theory & Society.
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The court that failed; Part I. The KCIR in Kansas: 2. Progressivism without experts: the colonial legacy and the arc of reform in Kansas; 3. Making the KCIR: institutional design and political philosophy; 4. The lost legal promise and political failings of the KCIR; Part II. The KCIR in the World: 5. The KCIR in national public life: divided reception in a stalemated era; 6. No intellectual haven: legal and economic divisions over the KCIR; 7. The KCIR before the US Supreme Court: reversal and reaction; 8. Locking into liberalism: the defeat of the KCIR and America's turn away from international labor policy models; Afterword: Shall the 2020s be new lean years?; Appendix: The cases and investigations of the KCIR.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 496 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781009665278 / 9781009665278 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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