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Into the Twilight Zone—The Law and the American Industrial Relations System since the New Deal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Ronald W. Schatz
Ronald W. Schatz
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Wesleyan University
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 36 , Fall 1989 , pp. 51 - 60
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1989

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