American Decades
"Labor Law Reform and Its Enemies"
Magazine article
By: Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers
Date: January 6–13, 1979
Source: Ferguson, Thomas, and Joel Rogers. "Labor Law Reform and Its Enemies." The Nation, January 6-13, 1979, 1, 17–18, 19, 20.
About the Authors: Thomas Ferguson (1949–), a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, is one of the nation's leading experts on the role of organized labor in American electoral politics.
Joel Rogers (1952–)is a professor of law, political science, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has written extensively on the future of the American working class.
Introduction
In 1935, passage of the Wagner Act (formally called the National Labor Relations Act) changed the relations between managers and employees, business and government, and business and organized labor in the United States. The act,...
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