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- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- 3 Yesterday’s Labor Law and Today’s Challenges
- 4 The National Labor Relations Board in the Twenty-First Century
- 5 Beyond the Race to the Bottom
- 6 Union Rights for All
- 7 Public Sector Innovations
- 8 Combatting Union Monopoly Power
- 9 The Case for Repealing the Firm Exemption to Antitrust
- 10 Make Labor Organizing a Civil Right
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
5 - Beyond the Race to the Bottom
Reforming Labor Law Preemption to Allow State Experimentation
from Part II - Labor Law Is Out of Date
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- 3 Yesterday’s Labor Law and Today’s Challenges
- 4 The National Labor Relations Board in the Twenty-First Century
- 5 Beyond the Race to the Bottom
- 6 Union Rights for All
- 7 Public Sector Innovations
- 8 Combatting Union Monopoly Power
- 9 The Case for Repealing the Firm Exemption to Antitrust
- 10 Make Labor Organizing a Civil Right
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Summary
Work has changed since the National Labor Relations Act became law more than eighty years ago. But as Cynthia Estlund’s chapter in this volume discusses, the NLRA has proven mostly impervious to amendment, with the significant exceptions of 1947’s Taft–Hartley Act and 1959’s Landrum-Griffin Act. The contrast with the public sector could not be sharper: where the NLRA has been stable, states have changed the laws governing concerted activity and collective bargaining by public employees relatively frequently. Likewise, an increasing list of states have raised the minimum wage and implemented other employment protections for both private- and public-sector workers, including paid sick days, predictable scheduling, and more.
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