Sophia Z. Lee

Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316054093
• Artikelnr.: 49268527

Autorenporträt

Sophia Z. Lee is Assistant Professor of Law and History at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work has appeared in the Virginia Law Review and Law and History Review. She earned her JD and her PhD in history from Yale University. Prior to joining the Penn Law faculty, she clerked for the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and served as a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law. As a graduate student, she won awards and fellowships from the American Society for Legal History, the American Historical Association, and Yale Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Crafting the Workplace Constitutions in the New Deal
1930s and 1940s: 1. Liberals forge a workplace constitution in the courts;
2. Agencies discover the liberal workplace constitution; 3. Conservatives
create a workplace constitution in the courts; Part II. Advancing the
Workplace Constitutions in the Cold War 1950s: 4. Liberals test the
workplace constitution in the courts; 5. Agencies consider the liberal
workplace constitution; 6. Conservatives pursue the workplace constitution
in the courts; Part III. Administering the Liberal Workplace Constitution
in the Long 1960s: 7. Agencies recognize the liberal workplace constitution
in the new frontier; 8. The liberal workplace constitution on the air and
the wires; 9. The NLRB expands the liberal workplace constitution; Part IV.
The Workplace Constitutions in the New Right 1970s and 1980s: 10.
Conservatives reject the liberal workplace constitution; 11. Liberals
rethink their workplace constitution; 12. Conservatives unite the workplace
constitutions; 13. The conservative workplace constitution divides the New
Right coalition; Epilogue.