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Putting It Together: Implications And Directions—Clashing Cultures, Clashing Economies, Clashing Values, Ed Marston
Putting It Together: Implications And Directions—Clashing Cultures, Clashing Economies, Clashing Values, Ed Marston
Who Governs the Public Lands: Washington? The West? The Community? (September 28-30)
6 pages.
Contains references.
The Political Economy Of The Wagner Act: Power, Symbol, And Workplace Cooperation, Mark Barenberg
The Political Economy Of The Wagner Act: Power, Symbol, And Workplace Cooperation, Mark Barenberg
Faculty Scholarship
To shed light on the legal debate over new forms of workplace collaboration, this Article reexamines the origins of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. Professor Barenberg concludes that the Wagner Act scheme was profoundly cooperationist, not adversarial as is conventionally assumed. Revisionist historiography shows that, contrary to the claims of public choice theorists, Senator Wagner's network of political entrepreneurs was the decisive force in the conception and enactment of the new labor policy, amidst interest group paralysis and popular unrest. Drawing on original archival materials and oral histories, Professor Barenberg reconstructs the progressive ideology of Wagner and his …