60 Citations
Narrative and social change: A case study of the Wagner act of 1935
- Law
- 2001
The Wagner Act of 1935 (the National Labor Relations Act) transformed unionization and collective bargaining from legally‐acknowledged rights difficult to exercise into federally‐protected rights.…
The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. And Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis
- Economics
- 2000
This paper offers a comparative study of the evolution of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan, using a game-theoretic framework in which an employment system is viewed as an equilibrium outcome…
Paradise Lost Revisited: GM & the UAW in Historical Perspective
- Business
- 2010
Purpose Analysis of historic relationship between GM and Union of Automobile Workers (UAW) from 1936 through the moment of bankruptcy of GM in 2009. How can this historic relationship be explained…
ADMINISTERED ENTITLEMENTS: COLLECTIVE BARGAINING TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
- LawSocial Philosophy and Policy
- 2021
Abstract This essay tells the story of the development of two of the most significant and controversial entitlement programs in twentieth-century U.S. history—collective bargaining and affirmative…
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…
Constitutional Economics
- Law, HistoryEncyclopedia of Law and Economics
- 2019
The conventional narrative that courts and legal scholars tell about the repudiation of Lochnerism in the late 1930s is incomplete. The standard view is that the Lochner line of cases'-those…
Opening Access, Ending the Violence Trap: Labor, Business, Government and the National Labor Relations Act
- Political Science
- 2016
Experience with Company Unions and Their Treatment Under the Wagner Act: A Four Frames of Reference Analysis
- Business
- 2016
type="main" xml:id="irel12124-abs-0001"> This paper reexamines American experience with company unions (also known as nonunion employee representation plans) before they were banned by the Wagner Act…
Does the Political Power of Non-Financial Stakeholders Affect Firm Values? Evidence from Labor Unions
- Business, Economics
- 2016
Whereas corporate political connections are known to enhance equity values, we demonstrate that union political activity can have the opposite effect. We examine the consequences of a recent…