Capital Labor and State or Strategic Management

Capital, Labor and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal

Author: David Brian Robertson

Capital, Labor, and State is a systematic and thorough examination of American labor policy from the Civil War to the New Deal. David Brian Robertson skillfully demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labor conditions in the 1900s, the United States continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions. Robertson argues that the American constitution made it much more difficult for the American Federation of Labor, government, and business to cooperate for mutual gain as extensively as their counterparts abroad, so that even at the height of New Deal, American labor market policy remained a patchwork of limited protections, uneven laws, and poor enforcement, lacking basic national standards even for child labor.

Author Biography: David Brian Robertson is associate professor of political science at University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures and Tables	ix
	Preface	xi
	Acknowledgments	xix
	Acronyms and Abbreviations	xxi
1	American Labor Market Policy, Strategy, and Political Institutions	1
2	Labor and Regulation, 1865-1900	37
3	The American Federation of Labor Confronts Employers	65
4	The Employers Counterattack	95
5	The American Federation of Labor's Strategic Retreat and Its Consequences	125
6	Limitations of Labor Market Regulation	153
7	Confining Trade Union Powers	183
8	Marginalizing Labor Market Management	207
9	Circumscribing Work Insurance	231
10	The American Model of Labor Market Policy	257
	Index	281
	About the Author	297

Go to: Essential Winetasting or Not Just for the Money

Strategic Management: Thought and Action, Vol. 1

Author: Anne Sigismund Huff

Organizations of all kinds are discovering how important it is for employees to understand why the company interacts the way it does with customers, competitors, and other actors. This innovative book shows readers how their current jobs fit into broader contexts and presents them with a business strategy to improve their careers. It examines research-based principles, providing different frameworks in each chapter for developing strategy in many different situations.