482
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

The State, the Unions, and the critical synthesis in labor law history: a 25-year retrospect

Pages 208-221 | Published online: 05 Mar 2013

References

  • American Law Institute . 2011 . “ Employee Obligations and Restrictive Covenants (Chapter 8) ” . In Restatement of the Law Third Employment Law: Tentative Draft No. 4 (revised) (July 11, 2011) , Philadelphia, PA : The American Law Institute .
  • Atleson , James B. 1983 . Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law , Amherst : The University of Massachusetts Press .
  • Balbus , Isaac . 1977 . Commodity Form and Legal Form: An Essay on the ‘Relative Autonomy’ of the Law . Law and Society Review , 11 ( 3 ) : 571 – 588 .
  • Becker , Craig . 1992 . Democracy in the Workplace: Union Representation Elections and Federal Labor Law . Minnesota Law Review , 77 ( 2 ) : 495 – 603 .
  • Bernstein , Irving . 1960 . The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920–1933 , Boston : Houghton Mifflin .
  • Bernstein , Irving . 1950 . The New Deal Collective Bargaining Policy , Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • Bernstein , Irving . 1969 . Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933–1941 , Boston : Houghton Mifflin .
  • Bourdieu , Pierre . 1987 . The Force of Law . Hastings Law Journal , 38 ( 5 ) : 805 – 853 .
  • Brody , David . 1972 . Labor and the Great Depression: The Interpretative Prospects . Labor History , 13 ( 2 ) : 231 – 244 .
  • Brody , David . 2005 . Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights , Urbana : University of Illinois Press .
  • Brody , David . 1979 . The Old Labor History and the New: In Search of an American Working Class . Labor History , 20 ( 1 ) : 111 – 126 .
  • Brody , David . 1980 . Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the 20th Century Struggle , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Brudney , James J. 2005 . Neutrality Agreements and Card Check Recognition: Prospects for Changing Paradigms . Iowa Law Review , 90 ( 3 ) : 819 – 886 .
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Union Members Summary: Union Members – 2010.” (Released January 21, 2011). Accessed July 1, 2011. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
  • Conkin , Paul K. 1967 . FDR and the Origins of the Welfare State , New York : Crowell .
  • Derber , Milton . 1970 . The American Ideal of Industrial Democracy, 1865–1965 , Urbana : University of Illinois Press .
  • Dezalay , Yves and Garth , Bryant G. 2002 . “ Legitimating the New Legal Orthodoxy ” . In Global Prescriptions: The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy , Edited by: Dezalay , Yves and Garth , BryantG. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press .
  • Dickman , Howard . 1987 . Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policy , La Salle, IL : Open Court .
  • Dubofksky , Melvin . 1986 . Book Review . Law and History Review , 4 ( 2 ) : 470 – 473 .
  • Dubofksky , Melvin . 1980–1981 . Legal Theory and Workers' Rights: A Historian's Critique . Industrial Relations Law Journal (now the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law , 4 ( 3 ) : 496 – 502 .
  • Dubofksky , Melvin . 1994 . The State and Labor in Modern America , Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press .
  • Epstein , Richard . 1983 . A Common Law for Labor Relations: A Critique of the New Deal Labor Legislation . Yale Law Journal , 92 ( 8 ) : 1357 – 1408 .
  • Finkin , Matthew W. 1985 . Does Karl Klare Protest Too Much? . Maryland Law Review , 44 ( 4 ) : 1100 – 1110 .
  • Finkin , Matthew W. 1984 . Revisionism in Labor Law . Maryland Law Review , 43 ( 1 ) : 23 – 92 .
  • Forbath , William E. 1991 . Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Gabel , Peter and Kennedy , Duncan . 1984 . Roll Over Beethoven . Stanford Law Review , 36 ( 1&2 ) : 1 – 56 .
  • Galambos , Louis P. 1970 . The Emerging Organizational Synthesis in Modern American History . Business History Review , 44 ( 3 ) : 279 – 290 .
  • Galambos , Louis P. 1983 . Technology, Political Economy, and Professionalization: Central Themes of the Organizational Synthesis . Business History Review , 57 ( 4 ) : 471 – 493 .
  • Galenson , Walter . 1960 . The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935–1941 , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Gordon , Robert W. 1984 . Critical Legal Histories . Stanford Law Review , 36 ( 1&2 ) : 57 – 125 .
  • Gordon , Robert W. 1982 . “ New Developments in Legal Theory ” . In The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique , Edited by: Kairys , David . New York : Pantheon .
  • Gordon , Robert W. 1996 . “ The Past as Authority and as Social Critic: Stabilizing and Destabilizing Functions of History in Legal Argument ” . In The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences , Edited by: McDonald , Terrence J. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press .
  • Holt , Wythe . 1984 . Labour Conspiracy Cases in the United States, 1805–1842: Bias and Legitimation in Common Law Adjudication . Osgoode Hall Law Journal , 22 ( 4 ) : 591 – 663 .
  • Horwitz , Morton J. 1977 . The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860 , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Horwitz , Morton J. 1992 . The Transformation of American Law, 1870–1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Hyde , Alan . “ Book Review ” . In Re-Working: A Newsletter of Critique and Transformation in Labor Law vol. 1986 ,
  • Kennedy , Duncan . 1980–1981 . Critical Labor Law Theory: A Comment . Industrial Relations Law Journal (now the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law , 4 ( 3 ) : 503 – 506 .
  • Kennedy , Duncan . 1979 . The Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries . Buffalo Law Review , 28 ( 2 ) : 205 – 382 .
  • Klare , Karl E. 1978 . Judicial Deradicalization of the Wagner Act and the Origins of Modern Legal Consciousness, 1937–1941 . Minnesota Law Review , 62 ( 3 ) : 265 – 339 .
  • Klare , Karl E. 1980–1981 . Labor Law as Ideology: Toward a New Historiography of Collective Bargaining Law . Industrial Relations Law Journal (now the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law , 4 ( 3 ) : 450 – 82 .
  • Klare , Karl E. 1985 . Lost Opportunity: Concluding Thoughts on the Finkin Critique . Maryland Law Review , 44 ( 4 ) : 1111 – 1123 .
  • Karl , E. 1985 . Traditional Labor Law Scholarship and the Crisis of Collective Bargaining Law: A Reply to Professor Finkin . Maryland Law Review , 44 ( 3 ) : 731 – 840 .
  • Logan , John . 2000 . Representatives of Their Own Choosing: Certification, Elections, and Employer Free Speech, 1935–1959 . Seattle University Law Review , 23 ( 3 ) : 549 – 567 .
  • Lynd , Staughton . 1980–1981 . Government Without Rights: The Labor Law Vision of Archibald Cox . Industrial Relations Law Journal (now the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law , 4 ( 3 ) : 483 – 495 .
  • Montgomery , David . 1972 . The Conventional Wisdom . Labor History , 13 ( 1 ) : 107 – 136 .
  • Montgomery , David . 1980 . To Study the People: The American Working Class . Labor History , 21 ( 4 ) : 485 – 512 .
  • Montgomery , David . 1979 . Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • NLRB v. Town & Country Electric, Inc. 516 U.S. 85. 1995
  • Rogers , Joel . 1990 . Divide and Conquer: Further ‘Reflections on the Distinctive Character of American Labor Laws . Wisconsin Law Review , : 1 – 147 .
  • Rogers , Joel . 1992 . “ In the Shadow of the Law: Institutional Aspects of Postwar U.S. Union Decline ” . In Labor Law in America: Historical and Critical Essays , Edited by: Tomlins , Christopher L. and King , Andrew J. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press .
  • Schlegel , John Henry . 1995 . American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science , Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press .
  • Slater , Joseph . 2000 . Petting the Infamous Yellow Dog: The Seattle High School Teachers Union and the State, 1928-1931 . Seattle University Law Review , 23 ( 3 ) : 485 – 501 .
  • Stein , Judith , Cronin , James E. , Linden , Marcel Van Der , Rogers , Joel and Friedman , Gerald . 2006 . Labor History Symposium: Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights (by) David Brody . Labor History , 47 ( 5 ) : 547 – 576 .
  • Stone , Katherine Van Wezel . 1981 . The Post-War Paradigm in American Labor Law . Yale Law Journal , 90 ( 7 ) : 1509 – 1580 .
  • Taft , Philip . 1957 . The A.F. of L. in the Time of Gompers , New York : Harper .
  • Taft , Philip. 1959 . The A.F. of L. from the Death of Gompers to the Merger , New York : Harper .
  • Taft , Philip . 1964 . Organized Labor in American History , New York : Harper .
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 1979 . AFL Unions in the 1930s: Their Performance in Historical Perspective . Journal of American History , 65 ( 4 ) : 1021 – 1042 .
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 2012 . After Critical Legal History: Scope, Scale, Structure . Annual Review of Law and Social Science , 8 : 31 – 68 .
  • Tomlins, Christopher L. “The Economic Basis and Political Expression of Agrarian Radicalism in the Western and Southern United States, 1870–1896.” M.A. thesis, Graduate Division of American Studies, University of Sussex, 1974
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 2000 . Framing the Field of Law's Disciplinary Encounters: A Historical Narrative . Law & Society Review , 34 ( 4 ) : 959 – 963 .
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 2000 . The Heavy Burden of the State: Revisiting the History of Labor Law in the Interwar Period . Seattle University Law Review , 23 ( 3 ) : 605 – 629 .
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 2004 . History in the American Juridical Field: Narrative, Justification, and Explanation . Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities , 16 ( 2 ) : 323 – 398 .
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 2007 . How Autonomous is Law? . Annual Review of Law and Social Science , 3 : 45 – 68 .
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 1993 . Law, Labor and Ideology in the Early American Republic , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Tomlins, Christopher L. “Revitalizing the Law of Work (Discussion).” Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association. Washington, DC: IRRA, 1995
  • Tomlins, Christopher L. “The State and the Unions: Federal Labor Relations Policy and the Organized Labor Movement in America 1935–1955.” PhD dissertation, The Johns Hopkins University, 1980
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 1985 . The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960 , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 2012 . What is Left of the Law and Society Paradigm after Critique? Revisiting Gordon's 'Critical Legal Histories' . Law and Social Inquiry , 37 ( 1 ) : 155 – 166 .
  • Tomlins , Christopher L. 2011 . What Would Langdell Have Thought? UC Irvine's New Law School and the Question of History . UC Irvine Law Review , 1 ( 1 ) : 187 – 247 .
  • Tushnet , Mark V. 1981 . The American Law of Slavery: Considerations of Humanity and Interest , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press .
  • Unger , Roberto Mangabeira . 1983 . The Critical Legal Studies Movement , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Unger , Roberto Mangabeira . 1987 . Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory , 3 vols , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Vinel , Jean-Christian . Christopher Tomlins's The State and the Unions Today: What the Critical Synthesis Can Teach Us Now that the Unions Have Gone . Labor History ,
  • Zieger , Robert H. 1986 . American Workers, American Unions, 1920–1985 , Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press .
  • Zieger , Robert H. 1976 . ‘Which Side Are You On?’ Workers, Unions, and Critics . Labor History , 17 ( 2 ) : 279 – 290 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.