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Hersees Of Woodstock Ltd. V. Goldstein: A Small Town Case Makes It Big, Eric M. Tucker
Hersees Of Woodstock Ltd. V. Goldstein: A Small Town Case Makes It Big, Eric M. Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
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Can Worker Voice Strike Back? Law And The Decline And Uncertain Future Of Strikes, Eric Tucker
Can Worker Voice Strike Back? Law And The Decline And Uncertain Future Of Strikes, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
This paper examines strikes as an expression of worker voice. It begins with a discussion of the connection between voice and strikes. It then documents the sharp decline in strike frequency across the common law world. It looks more closely at strike rates in Canada, where strike rates have declined in both the public and private sectors and at a greater rate than the decline in union density. It then considers the role of law in decline from the perspective that structural factors primarily shape the environment for strikes but that labour law mediates their impact to a degree. It …
Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, And The Canadian State, 1886-1914, Eric Tucker
Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, And The Canadian State, 1886-1914, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
Street railway strikes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were often accompanied by high levels of public disorder. The challenge to public authorities, however, was not just in the scale of the disorder but also the disjuncture between the behaviour that a significant portion of the working-class community felt was legitimate in the circumstances and what the law tolerated. Public officials confronted with this dilemma had to negotiate between the disparate zones of community and legal toleration. How much disorder would they tolerate before mobilizing the coercive power of the state to protect the right of the street …