25 Citations
Law, Politics, and Occupational Consciousness: Industrial Guard Unions in the United States, 1933–1945
- Business
- 2010
From 1865 to 1937 industrial guards (or company police) enforced work rules and engaged in anti-union activities. The National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) and the National Labor Relations Act…
The Myth of Section 7(a): Worker Militancy, Progressive Labor Legislation, and the Coal Miners
- EconomicsLabor
- 2019
Abstract:In this article, the authors look at the supposed causal role of progressive labor legislation on union organizing. As an extension of the Wagner Act debates of the late 1980s and early…
Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
- Political Science
- 2018
Why are unions weaker in the United States than in Canada, despite the two countries’ socioeconomic similarities? Many view this crossborder distinction as a by-product of longstanding differences in…
ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: RANK-AND-FILE TEACHERS' ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL UNIONISM IN CALIFORNIA, 1948-1978
- Sociology, Political Science
- 2014
From the 1940s to the late 1970s, rank-and-file teachers and elected leaders in California engaged in dynamic efforts to shape the American Federation of Teachers' political approach to unionism.…
The State, the Unions, and the critical synthesis in labor law history: a 25-year retrospect
- History, Economics
- 2013
This article responds to Jean-Christian Vinel's assessment of the ‘critical synthesis’ whose proponents created labor law history as a new and flourishing field of scholarship in the decade after…
Léon Jouhaux, Louis Saillant and the national and international in transnational trade unionism
- History
- 2013
The history of transnational trade unionism has been analysed in terms of mutual assistance, regulating global capital, augmenting the legitimacy, prestige and power of unions and their leaders, and…
A Moment of Constitutional Intersection: The Shipstead Bill, the Competitive Dynamics of Constitutional Advocacy, and the Politics of Race and Class on the Road to the Constitutional Revolution of 1937
- Law, History
- 2011
In this paper, I sketch the competitive dynamics of constitutional advocacy, analyzing the vertical and horizontal channeling of constitutional claims as applied to the politics surrounding the…