Rights, not interests : resolving value clashes under the National Labor Relations Act / James A. Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, James A., 1933- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. National Labor Relations Board.

United States.

United States. National Labor Relations Act.

Employee rights--United States.

Employee rights.

Industrial relations--United States.

Industrial relations.

Labor laws and legislation--United States.

Labor laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : ILR Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501714269

1501714260

9781501714276

1501714279

OCLC:

987437576