Description
Book SynopsisThis provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy in U.S. labor law and labor relations. James A. Gross argues that the NLRA was and remains at its core a workers' rights statute.
Gross shows how value clashes and choices between those who interpret the NLRA as a workers' rights statute and those who contend that the NLRA seeks only a balance between the economic interests of labor and management have been major influences in the evolution of the board and the law. Gross contends, contrary to many who would write its obituary, that the NLRA is not dead. Instead he concludes with a call for visionary thinking, which would include, for example, considering the U.S. Constitution as a source of workers' rights. Rights, Not Interests<
Trade Review
Gross's clearly structured account provides a good overview and persuasive interpretation for experts and undergraduates alike.
* Choice *
This is an obviously solid scholarly work.... Because it is so well organized and written, his book should be widely adopted in graduate and undergraduate courses on the evolving labour law and rights in the American workplace. It should also be studied carefully by the international cadre of labour law designers.
* British Journal of Industrial Relations *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. From Wagner to Taft-Hartley
2. Conflicting Statutory Purposes
3. The Gould Board
4. Gould Board Decisions and Workers’ Rights
5. The Battista Board
6. The Liebman Board
Concluding Comments
Notes
Index
