Part VI. The role of labor research and education in the labor movement of the twenty-first century : the UCLA Labor Center and the CLEAN Carwash Campaign / Union trends / Victor H. Narro. The consequences of union decline / Jake Rosenfeld -- Part II. Labor law is out of date -- Yesterday's labor law and today's challenges / Cynthia Estlund -- The National Labor Relations Board in the twentieth-first century / William B. Gould IV -- Beyond the race to the bottom : reforming labor law preemption to allow state experimentation / Charlotte Garden -- Union rights for all : toward sectoral bargaining in the United States / Kate Andrias -- Public sector innovations : valuing voice / Ann C. Hodges and Martin H. Malin -- Combatting union monopoly power : the contrast between pre- and post-New Deal legal regimes / Richard A. Epstein -- The case for repealing the firm exemption to antitrust (A modest proposal, or, A response to Professor Epstein) / Sanjukta Paul -- Make labor organizing a civil right / Richard D. Kahlenberg and Moshe Z. Marvit -- Part III. The "fissured" workplace -- Some problems with NLRA coverage : independent contractors and joint employers / Joseph Slater -- Twenty-first century employers / Jeffrey M. Hirsch -- The problem of "misclassification" or how to define who is an "employee" under protective legislation in the Information Age / Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt -- Rupture and invention : the changing nature of work and the implications for social policy / Katherine V. W. Stone -- Contemplating new categories of workers : technology and the fissured workplace / Miriam A. Cherry -- Balancing flexibility and rigidity : do unions make sense in the on-demand economy? / Seth C. Oranburg and Liya Palagashvili -- Part IV. Barriers to forming a collective bargaining relationship -- Tactical mismatch in union organizing drives / Charlotte Garden -- The power of place / Michael W. Oswalt -- Assembly and collective rights / Marion Crain -- Leveraging secondary activity within and outside legal boundaries / Anne Marie Lofaso -- Captive audience meetings : the right not to attend / Paul M. Secunda -- Part V. Barriers to bargaining a good contract -- Obtaining a first contract after winning recognition / David A. Rosenfeld -- Advancing global labor standards : potential and limits of international labor law for worker-rights advocacy in the United States / Lance Compa -- Organizing for workplace rights when immigration law discourages it / Leticia M. Saucedo -- The central role of the right to strike / Julius G. Getman -- Organizational power for workers within the firm / Matthew T. Bodie -- Returning members-only collective bargaining to the American workplace : how to restore labor's countervailing power / Charles J. Morris -- Part VI. Unions, civil society, and culture -- Can labor law reform encourage robust economic democracy? / Brishen Rogers -- Union security for the twenty-first century / Catherine L. Fisk -- Union membership and the Ghent System / Matthew Dimick -- Principled hope : labor law reform from an alt-labor perspective / Cesar F. Rosado Marzan -- Politically engaged unionism : the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas / Ruben J. Garcia -- Union commitment to racial diversity / Michael Z. Green -- The economics of minimum wage regulations / Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde -- The role of labor research and education in the labor movement of the twenty-first century : the UCLA Labor Center and the CLEAN Carwash Campaign / Victor H. Narro.
Summary:
Over the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely work, editors Rick Bales and Charlotte Garden - with a roster of thirty-five leading labor scholars - analyze these trends and show how they are linked. Designed to appeal to those being introduced to the field as well as experts seeking new insights, this book demonstrates how federal labor law is failing today's workers and disempowering unions; how union jobs pay better than nonunion jobs and help to increase the wages of even nonunion workers; and how, when union jobs vanish, the wage premium also vanishes. At the same time, the book offers a range of solutions, from the radical, such as a complete overhaul of federal labor law, to the incremental, including reforms that could be undertaken by federal agencies on their own.
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