Labor law in America : historical and critical essays / edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Andrew J. King.
1992
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Title
Labor law in America : historical and critical essays / edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Andrew J. King.
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1992]
Copyright
©1992
Call Number
KF3319 .L274 1992
ISBN
0801843626
Description
vi, 355 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25203539
Note
Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held Mar. 20-21, 1990, jointly hosted by the University of Maryland School of Law and the Johns Hopkins University History Dept
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-341) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Labor, Law, and History / Christopher L. Tomlins Andrew J. King
1
1
The Philadelphia Cordwainers' Case of 1806: The Struggle over Alternative Legal Constructions of a Free Market in Labor / Robert J. Steinfeld
20
2
Courts and the Question of Class: Judicial Regulation of Labor under the Common Law Doctrine of Criminal Conspiracy / Victoria C. Hattam
44
3
Law and Power in the Employment Relationship / Christopher L. Tomlins
71
4
Hidden Dimensions in Labor Law History: Gender Variations on the Theme of Free Labor / Lea S. VanderVelde
99
5
Beggars Can't Be Choosers: Compulsion and Contract in Postbellum America / Amy Dru Stanley
128
6
Metaphysics and Reality in Late Nineteenth-Century Labor Adjudication / Karen Orren
160
7
The Danbury Hatters' Case / Daniel R. Ernst
180
8
Law and the Shaping of Labor Politics in the United States and England / William Forbath
201
9
The Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill: American Social Wage, Labor Organization, and Legal Ideology / Kenneth Casebeer
231
10
The Regulation of Homework and the Devolution of the Postwar Labor Standards Regime: Beyond Dichotomy / Eileen Boris
260
11
In the Shadow of the Law: Institutional Aspects of Postwar U.S. Union Decline / Joel Rogers
283
Bibliography
303
Contributors
343
Index
345