Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement - Couverture souple

Forbath, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674517822 ISBN 13 : 9780674517820

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Why did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American "individualism." In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe's labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial to reshaping labor's outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William E. Forbath holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law and is Associate Dean for Research at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674517822
• ISBN 13: 9780674517820
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
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