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Constitutional Conflicts eBook Series

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  • Only One Place of Redress

    African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal

    by David E. Bernstein, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment of those who lacked political power. Both intentionally and incidentally, claims Bernstein, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • The Run of His Life

    The People v. O. J. Simpson

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Connie BrittonThe definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Labour Before the Law

    The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948

    by Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major judicial decisions that transformed the labour relations regime of liberal voluntarism, which ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law

    Edited by Michael A. McCann ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law takes the reader through the most important controversies and critical developments in law and U.S. sports. Over the course of 30 chapters, leading scholars explore this expanding and captivating area of law. The Handbook is the first book to gather dozens of perspectives on sports law controversies in the United States, and will be of interest to those ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Q&A Employment Law 2013-2014

    by Deborah Lockton ...
    Series series Questions and Answers
    Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation. Each book contains up to fifty essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and fully worked model answers.These new editions for 2013-2014 will provide you with the skills you need for ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Rights Delayed

    The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950

    by Charles W. Romney ...
    Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic anti-communism and southern conservatives in Congress as the forces that diminished the New Deal state, eliminated progressive unions, and destroyed the radical potential of American liberalism. Rights ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • A Class by Herself

    Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s

    by Nancy Woloch ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws—from their roots in progressive ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955

    Edited by Douglas Hay, Paul Craven ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers. The English model was adopted, modified, and reinvented in more than a thousand ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Drowning in Laws

    Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture

    by John D. French ...
    Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world’s most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John D. French examines the juridical origins of the CLT and the role it played in the cultural and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Writing for Hire

    Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue

    by Catherine L. Fisk ...
    Required to sign away their legal rights as authors as a condition of employment, professional writers may earn a tidy living for their work, but they seldom own their writing. Writing for Hire traces the history of labor relations that defined authorship in film, TV, and advertising in the mid-twentieth century. Catherine L. Fisk examines why strikingly different norms of attribution emerged in ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Sport and the Law

    Historical and Cultural Intersections

    Edited by Samuel O. Regalado, Sarah K. Fields ...
    Series series Sport, culture, and society
    This new collection examines not only how athletes looked to the nation’s judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases trans¬formed the interpretation of laws. These essays examine a vast array of social and legal controversies including Heywood v. NBA (1971), which allowed any player to enter the draft; Flood v. Kuhn (1972), which considered baseball’s antitrust status; the Danny ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Labor Rights and Multinational Production

    by Layna Mosley ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Labor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers' rights and multinational production. Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in directly owned foreign investment, positively affect labor rights. But other types of international production, particularly subcontracting, can engender competitive races to the bottom in labor rights. ... Read more

    $31.19 USD