Capital, Labor, and State

The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal

By: David Brian Robertson

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Paperback | 16 August 2000

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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.

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A very concise, insightful examination of the ongoing struggle of unions, employers, and the government to establish the precise boundaries of U.S. labor-management relations in the post-Civil War era. Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through professional collections.--CHOICE

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Non-Fiction Industry & Industrial Studies Industrial Relations, Health & Safety Industrial Relations History Regional & National History History of the Americas Law Laws of Specific Jurisdictions Employment & Labour Law Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

Military History American Civil War Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Economics Labour Economics

List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xxi
American Labor Market Policy, Strategy, and Political Institutions	p. 1
Labor and Regulation, 1865-1900	p. 37
The American Federation of Labor Confronts Employers	p. 65
The Employers Counterattack	p. 95
The American Federation of Labor's Strategic Retreat and Its Consequences	p. 125
Limitations of Labor Market Regulation	p. 153
Confining Trade Union Powers	p. 183
Marginalizing Labor Market Management	p. 207
Circumscribing Work Insurance	p. 231
The American Model of Labor Market Policy	p. 257
Index	p. 281
About the Author	p. 297
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Capital, Labor, and State

The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal

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