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Employee Free Choice Or Employee Forged Choice? Race In The Mirror Of Exclusionary Hierarchy, Harry G. Hutchison
Employee Free Choice Or Employee Forged Choice? Race In The Mirror Of Exclusionary Hierarchy, Harry G. Hutchison
Harry G. Hutchison
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is arguably the most transformative piece of labor legislation to come before Congress since the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA). Putting the potential impact of the EFCA in historical perspective, one commentator contends that the NLRA marked the culmination of a systematic effort of the Progressive Movement that dominated so much of American intellectual life during the first third of the twentieth century. As it was widely acknowledged at the time, the NLRA was revolutionary in its implications for American Labor Law. Less widely recognized were the adverse effects …
What Workers Want Or What Labor Experts Want Them To Want?, Harry G. Hutchison
What Workers Want Or What Labor Experts Want Them To Want?, Harry G. Hutchison
Harry G. Hutchison
Richard B. Freeman & Joel Rodgers, offer an important addition to the industrial relations literature. This work is grounded in survey methodology. The authors’ original thesis, premised on the Worker Representation and Participation Study (WRPS) which Freeman & Rogers designed more than ten years ago, concludes that there is “a large gap between the kind and extent of representation and participation workers had and what they desired.” The updated edition of their book, “What Workers Want,” does not present new or innovative polling or original empirical research directed by the authors. Instead, much of the new data cited comes from …
Work, The Social Question, Progress And The Common Good?, Harry G. Hutchison
Work, The Social Question, Progress And The Common Good?, Harry G. Hutchison
Harry G. Hutchison
In Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law, editors Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collett offer a collection of essays that revive the connections between faith and reason and between truth and hope as the foundation for progress. Given the importance of papal encyclicals, work, and the increasing demands of the regulatory state, this article concentrates on three central and related themes that surface throughout the book: the difficulty, in America’s current epoch, of acknowledging any shared truths, the question of labor and employment policy in a pluralistic society, and the relative balance needed between state intervention on …