The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right

The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right
Author: Sophia Z. Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2014-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316061191

Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explain why. It takes readers back to the 1930s and 1940s when advocates across the political spectrum - labor leaders, civil rights advocates and conservatives opposed to government regulation - set out to enshrine constitutional rights in the workplace. The book tells their interlocking stories of fighting for constitutional protections for American workers, recovers their surprising successes, explains their ultimate failure, and helps readers assess this outcome.

Taming the Past

Taming the Past
Author: Robert W. Gordon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107193230

A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.

The Liability Century

The Liability Century
Author: Kenneth S. Abraham
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2008-03-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780674033771

Kenneth Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime and the insurance system in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond, including the events of September 11, 2001. From its beginning late in the nineteenth century, the availability of liability insurance led to the creation of new forms of liability, heavily influenced expansion of the liabilities that already existed, and continually promoted increases in the amount of money that was awarded in tort suits. A “liability-and-insurance spiral” emerged, in which the availability of liability insurance encouraged the imposition of more liability, and, in turn, the imposition of liability encouraged the further spread of insurance. Liability insurance was not merely a source of funding for ever-greater amounts of tort liability. Liability insurers came to dominate tort litigation. They defended lawsuits against their policyholders, and they decided which cases to settle, fight, or appeal. The very idea behind insurance––that spreading losses among large numbers of policyholders is desirable––came to influence the ideology of tort law. To serve the aim of loss spreading, liability had to expand. Today the tort liability and insurance systems constantly interact, and to reform one the role of the other must be fully understood.

States of Dependency

States of Dependency
Author: Karen M. Tani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2016-04-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107076846

This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.

The Black Book

The Black Book
Author: Meera Kaura Patel
Publisher: Universal Law Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2011
Genre: Citation of legal authorities
ISBN: 9788175349933