{"product_id":"only-one-place-of-redress-9780822325833","title":"Only One Place of Redress","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering a bold reinterpretation of American legal history, the author argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment of those who lacked political power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOnly One Place of Redress\u003c\/i\u003e presents a bold reinterpretation of the relationship between governmental regulations of the marketplace and economic opportunity for blacks. Bernstein challenges the conventional wisdom and invites readers to reconsider breezy assumptions about how employment regulations operated.”—James W. Ely, Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A provocative revisionist overview of legislation regulating labor relations. This will undoubtedly receive a great deal of attention from historians and students of the Constitution, and for good reason.”—Mark Tushnet, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961–1991\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface        xiii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments        xix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction        1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Emigrant Agent Laws \u003cbr\u003e        33\u003cbr\u003e 2. Licensing Laws        121\u003cbr\u003e 3. Railroad Labor Regulations \u003cbr\u003e        203\u003cbr\u003e 4. Prevailing-Wage Laws \u003cbr\u003e        275\u003cbr\u003e 5. New Deal Labor Laws         353\u003cbr\u003e Documents        \u003cbr\u003e Section 1: Federal Acts and Resolutions 486\u003cbr\u003e        486\u003cbr\u003e Section 2: State Legislation 519\u003cbr\u003e        519\u003cbr\u003e Section 3: Municipal Resolutions         537\u003cbr\u003e Section 4: Advocacy and Activism        560\u003cbr\u003e Section 5: Case Studies of Redress\u003cbr\u003e        638\u003cbr\u003e Section 6: Lawsuits        661\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography         673\u003cbr\u003e Contributors         683\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687        687\u003cbr\u003e Index        691","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026154327,"sku":"9780822325833","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822325833.jpg?v=1730494287","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/only-one-place-of-redress-9780822325833","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}