Only One Place of Redress (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2001-01-01
Upplaga
New
Förlag
Duke University Press
Illustrationer
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensioner
236 x 155 x 21 mm
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436 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780822325833

Only One Place of Redress

African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal

av David E Bernstein
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2001-01-01
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In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment of those who lacked political power. Both intentionally and incidentally, claims Bernstein, these laws restricted in particular the job mobility and economic opportunity of blacks. A pioneer in applying the insights of public choice theory to legal history, Bernstein contends that the much-maligned jurisprudence of the Lochner erawith its emphasis on freedom of contract and private market orderingactually discouraged discrimination and assisted groups with little political clout. To support this thesis he examines the motivation behind and practical impact of laws restricting interstate labor recruitment, occupational licensing laws, railroad labor laws, minimum wage statutes, the Davis-Bacon Act, and New Deal collective bargaining. He concludes that the ultimate failure of Lochnerismand the triumph of the regulatory statenot only strengthened racially exclusive labor unions but contributed to a massive loss of employment opportunities for African Americans, the effects of which continue to this day. Scholars and students interested in race relations, labor law, and legal or constitutional history will be fascinated by Bernsteins daringand controversialargument.
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Only One Place of Redress presents a bold reinterpretation of the relationship between governmental regulations of the marketplace and economic opportunity for blacks. Bernstein challenges the conventional wisdom and invites readers to reconsider breezy assumptions about how employment regulations operated.James W. Ely, Jr., author of The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights A provocative revisionist overview of legislation regulating labor relations. This will undoubtedly receive a great deal of attention from historians and students of the Constitution, and for good reason.Mark Tushnet, author of Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 19611991

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David E. Bernstein is Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and coeditor of Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law.

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Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 1. Emigrant Agent Laws 33 2. Licensing Laws 121 3. Railroad Labor Regulations 203 4. Prevailing-Wage Laws 275 5. New Deal Labor Laws 353 Documents Section 1: Federal Acts and Resolutions 486 486 Section 2: State Legislation 519 519 Section 3: Municipal Resolutions 537 Section 4: Advocacy and Activism 560 Section 5: Case Studies of Redress 638 Section 6: Lawsuits 661 Selected Bibliography 673 Contributors 683 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687 687 Index 691

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