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A New Labor For Deep Democracy: From Social Democracy To Democratic Socialism, Mark Barenberg Jan 2021

A New Labor For Deep Democracy: From Social Democracy To Democratic Socialism, Mark Barenberg

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Conventional workplace law includes the law of collective bargaining and employment contracts. This chapter argues that, to fully understand how law constructs worker power, industrial democracy, and political democracy, workplace law should greatly broaden in scope. The “new labor law” should encompass components of many fields of law that influence worker power and democracy as much as many components of conventional labor law. These additional components are lodged in domestic and international finance law, social wage law, constitutional law, communication law, tax law, and many more fields. The chapter applies the new labor law to critique and offer proposals to …


Union Rights For All: Toward Sectoral Bargaining In The United States, Kate Andrias Jan 2019

Union Rights For All: Toward Sectoral Bargaining In The United States, Kate Andrias

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American labor unions have collapsed. Having once bargained for more than a third of American workers, unions now represent only about 6 percent of the private sector workforce. In the wake of new statutory and constitutional limitations, their presence in the public sector is shrinking as well.