The workplace constitution from the New Deal to the New Right /
"Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explain why. It takes readers back to the 1930s and 1940s when advocates across the political spectrum...
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The workplace constitution from the New Deal to the New Right / |c Sophia Z. Lee |
| 260 | |a New York, NY : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2014 | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 401 pages ; |c 23 cm | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Studies in legal history | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-387) and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Liberals forge a workplace constitution in the courts -- Agencies discover the liberal workplace constitution -- Conservatives create a workplace constitution in the courts -- Liberals test the workplace constitution in the courts -- Agencies consider the liberal workplace constitution -- Conservatives pursue the workplace constitution in the courts -- Agencies recognize the liberal workplace constitution in the new frontier -- The liberal workplace constitution on the air and over the wires -- The NLRB expands the liberal workplace constitution -- Conservatives reject the liberal workplace constitution -- Liberals rethink the workplace constitution -- Conservatives unite the workplace constitution -- The conservative workplace constitution divides the new right coalition | |
| 520 | |a "Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explain why. It takes readers back to the 1930s and 1940s when advocates across the political spectrum - labor leaders, civil rights advocates, and conservatives opposed to government regulation - set out to enshrine constitutional rights in the workplace. The book tells their interlocking stories of fighting for constitutional protections for American workers, recovers their surprising successes, explains their ultimate failure, and helps readers assess this outcome"--Amazon.com | ||
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