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Rights, Not Interests : Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act / James A. Gross.

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Gross, James A [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781501714276

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KF3372 .G765 2018

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. From Wagner to Taft-Hartley: From Rights to Interests -- 2. Conflicting Statutory Purposes: Conflicting Values -- 3. The Gould Board: Conflicting Agendas -- 4. Gould Board Decisions and Workers' Rights -- 5. The Battista Board: Individual not Collective Rights -- 6. The Liebman Board: The NLRA, at Its Heart a Human Rights Law -- Concluding Comments -- Notes -- Index

Title is part of eBook package: COR eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017Title is part of eBook package: Cornell Univ. Press eBook-Package Pilot Project 2016-2017Summary: This 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 will appeal to labor activists and those who are trying to reform our labor laws as well as scholars and students of management, human resources, and industrial relations.

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This 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 will appeal to labor activists and those who are trying to reform our labor laws as well as scholars and students of management, human resources, and industrial relations.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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