Screen LibraryThe Cambridge handbook of U.S. labor law for the twenty-first century /
Over the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely work, editors Rick Bales and Charlotte Garden - with a roster of thirty-five leading labor scholars - analyze these trends and show how they are linked. Des...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Over the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely work, editors Rick Bales and Charlotte Garden - with a roster of thirty-five leading labor scholars - analyze these trends and show how they are linked. Designed to appeal to those being introduced to the field as well as experts seeking new insights, this book demonstrates how federal labor law is failing today's workers and disempowering unions; how union jobs pay better than nonunion jobs and help to increase the wages of even nonunion workers; an |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 415 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781108428835 (hardback) : 1108428835 (hardback) 9781108583251 (PDF ebook) 1108583253 (PDF ebook) |
| Index Number: | KF3319 |
| CLC: | D971.225-62 |
| Call Number: | D971.225-62/C178 |
| Contents: |
Introduction: Union trends / The consequences of union decline / Labor law is out of date -- Yesterday's labor law and today's challenges / The National Labor Relations Board in the twentieth-first century / Beyond the race to the bottom : reforming labor law preemption to allow state experimentation / Union rights for all : toward sectoral bargaining in the United States / Public sector innovations : valuing voice / |