Communication Breakdown: Reviving the Role of Discourse in the Regulation of Employee Collective Action
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The problems facing individuals who attempt to act together are considerable.Yet in perhaps no other area are these collective-action problems more acute than the workplace.This reality creates a serious issue for labor law, which guarantees employees the right to engage in collective action.Conditions in the modern workplace increasingly erect barriers to employees' ability to act together which threaten this right.Rather than knocking down these barriers, however, labor law over the last several decades has reinforced them.A key factor in this failure is the refusal of the courts and the National Labor Relations Board to recognize
Author: Jeffrey M. Hirsch
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Topic: Legal and Labor Studies
Subfield: Industrial relations
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1559570196