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University of Missouri School of Law

Labor and Employment Law

2023

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Political Polarization In America: Its Impact On Industrial Democracy And Labor Law, Rafael Gely Oct 2023

Political Polarization In America: Its Impact On Industrial Democracy And Labor Law, Rafael Gely

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This article explores the impact that political polarization is having in the social, legal, and regulatory space, particularly on American worker-management relations. Polarization is affecting decisions involving social relationships and market transactions, the ability of institutions built to generate debate and discussion to successfully complete these missions, and people's willingness to listen to and engage with views contrary to their own.


Achieving The Achievable: Realistic Labor Law Reform, Rafael Gely Apr 2023

Achieving The Achievable: Realistic Labor Law Reform, Rafael Gely

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A common reprise among labor activists and scholars has been that for the fortunes of labor to change, the law must change. Prompted perhaps by a seeming surge in labor movement activity over the past few years, including headline-grabbing strikes and recent union victories at several U.S. Starbucks locations, various labor law activists and scholars have called to seize the moment and proposed the enactment of comprehensive labor law reform. We argue in this Article that broad-scale labor law reform is unlikely to be enacted by the current U.S. Congress or even have all its provisions pass muster when potentially …