Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: at the National Labor Relations Board "was just wild."A "great joy" and a "whole feeling of victory.., ran through the office -[it was] like a carnival almost for that day and days afterward."' On that day, a divided Supreme Court had upheld the Wagner Act as the law of the land.Given today's near universal acknowledgement of the triumph of capitalism and almost universal acceptance of the "free market" values underlying that economic system, it needs to be recalled that when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as president of the United States in the Great Depression year of 1933, the people had lost faith in the virtues of rugged individualism and the allegedly self-generating forces of economic t Professor Gross has published a three volume study of the NLRB and U.S. labor policy.The most recent volume, Broken Promise: The Subversion of American Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994 was published by Temple
Author: James A. Gross
Language: English
Topic: Legal and Labor Studies
Subfield: Industrial relations
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W769278653