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"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The lines of rigid conflict between political parties noted in Chapter 1 were not always present prior to the New Deal and the post-New Deal era in which the Eisenhower administration functioned. In contrast to their party's political position from the latter part of the twentieth century into the twenty-first century, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were hardly hostile to unions and the interests of working people. Quite the contrary. Said President Lincoln:…mehr

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"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The lines of rigid conflict between political parties noted in Chapter 1 were not always present prior to the New Deal and the post-New Deal era in which the Eisenhower administration functioned. In contrast to their party's political position from the latter part of the twentieth century into the twenty-first century, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were hardly hostile to unions and the interests of working people. Quite the contrary. Said President Lincoln: Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much of the higher consideration"--
Autorenporträt
William B. Gould IV is Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Stanford Law School. A prolific scholar of labor and discrimination law, Gould has been an influential voice in worker¿management relations for more than fifty years and served as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB, 1994¿1998) and subsequently Chairman of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (2014-2017). As NLRB Chairman, he played a critical role in bringing the 1994¿1995 baseball strike to its conclusion and has arbitrated and mediated more than three hundred labor disputes, including the 1992 and 1993 salary disputes between the Major League Baseball Players Association and the Major League Baseball Player Relations Committee. Gould also served as Special Advisor to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on project labor agreements (2011¿2012). Independent Reviewer on Equal Employment Opportunity for San Francisco (2020-2021) and a critically acclaimed author of ten books and more than sixty law review articles, Professor Gould is the recipient of five honorary doctorates for his contributions to the fields of labor law and labor relations.