Capital, labor, and state : the battle for American labor markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
This examination of American labour policy demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labour conditions in the 1900's, the US continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions.
Print Book, English, ©2000
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2000
History
xxii, 297 pages ; 24 cm
9780847697281, 9780847697298, 0847697282, 0847697290
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American labor market policy, strategy, and political institutions
Labor and regulation, 1865-1900
The American Federation of Labor confronts employers
The employers counterattack
The American Federation of Labor's strategic retreat and its consequences
Limitations of labor market regulation
Confining trade union powers
Marginalizing labor market management
Circumscribing work insurance
The American model of labor market policy