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Evaluating Unions: Labor Economics And The Law, Michael J. Goldberg
Evaluating Unions: Labor Economics And The Law, Michael J. Goldberg
Michigan Law Review
A Review ofWhat Do Unions Do? by Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
Challenges And Choices Facing American Labor, George Feldman
Challenges And Choices Facing American Labor, George Feldman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Challenges and Choices Facing American Labor edited by Thomas A. Kochan
Integrity And Circumspection: The Labor Law Vision Of Bernard D. Meltzer, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Integrity And Circumspection: The Labor Law Vision Of Bernard D. Meltzer, Theodore J. St. Antoine
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Bernard Meltzer has testified under oath that he "rarely take[s] absolute positions." The record bears him out. While his colleagues among labor law scholars often strain to demonstrate that the labor relations statutes and even the Constitution support their hearts' desires, the typical Meltzer stance is one of cool detachment, pragmatic assessment, and cautious, balanced judgment. The "itch to do good," Meltzer has remarked wryly, "is a doubtful basis for jurisdiction" -or, he would likely add, for any other legal conclusion. In this brief commentary I propose to examine the Meltzer approach to four broad areas of labor law: (1) …