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Privatizing justice : arbitration and the decline of public governance in the US / Sarah Staszak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Staszak, Sarah L., author.
- Series:
- Studies in postwar American political development.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Studies in postwar American political development
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arbitration and award--United States.
- Arbitration and award.
- Arbitration agreements, Commercial--United States.
- Arbitration agreements, Commercial.
- Labor laws and legislation--United States.
- Labor laws and legislation.
- Collective bargaining--Law and legislation--United States.
- Collective bargaining.
- Consumer protection--Law and legislation--United States.
- Consumer protection.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- While the use of arbitration in the private sector has grown dramatically in recent decades, arbitration itself is not new. Yet the practice today looks very different than it did at its origins. How did arbitration shift from providing a low cost, less adversarial, and more efficient way of handling disputes between relative equals to a private, non-reviewable, and compulsory forum for resolving disputes between individuals and corporations that almost always favors the latter? 'Privatizing Justice' examines the broader institutional, political, and legal dynamics that shaped this century-long transformation and explains why the system that emerged has shifted power to corporations, exacerbated inequality, and eroded democracy.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Arbitration's institutional orders
- Collective bargaining and labor's industrial democracy
- Disjointed origins: the rise of commercial and securities arbitration
- Part II: The first wave: The bipartisan origins of arbitration's conversion
- Employment rights as civil rights
- The consumer rights movement
- Part III The secong wave
- Privatizing the workplace in the new millennium
- Consumers beware the fine print
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 22, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 0-19-777174-2
- 0-19-777176-9
- OCLC:
- 1419447091
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