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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
From Labor Law to Employment Law: The Changing Politics of Workers’ Rights
Beteiligte:
Galvin, Daniel J.
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019
Erschienen in:Studies in American Political Development
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/s0898588x19000038
ISSN:
0898-588X;
1469-8692
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<jats:p>Over the past several decades, a new kind of labor politics has emerged in new venues (state and local levels), focusing on new governing institutions (employment laws), involving new strategies by labor unions, and featuring new organizational forms (“alt-labor”). The timing, form, and content of these developments have been powerfully shaped by the persistence of the increasingly outmoded but still authoritative national labor law, which has constrained and channeled the efforts of workers and their advocates to respond to growing problems. While the new institutions and organizations provide new substantive rights for workers and alternative vehicles for voice and collective action, the layering of these new forms alongside the old—without displacing the latter—has generated new problems without solving the problems produced by the ossification of labor law in the first place. Using novel empirical data and analysis, this article documents these changes, explores their causes, and considers their consequences for the changing politics of workers’ rights.</jats:p>