Book Review: International and Comparative Labor Relations: The Legal Status of Collective Agreements in England, the United States and Canada

ILR Review ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-297
Author(s):  
Morrison Handsaker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Collective Agreements

Worker Lawmaking, Sit-Down Strikes, and the Shaping of American Industrial Relations, 1935-1958

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Pope
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
National Labor Relations Act ◽  
Labor Practices

Between 1936 and 1939, American workers staged some 583 sit-down strikes of at least one day's duration. In the latter year, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion inNLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation, resolving the official legal status of the tactic.Fansteelmade it clear not only that a state could punish sit-downers for violating trespass laws, but also that an employer could lawfully discharge them—even if that employer had itself provoked the sit-down by committing unfair labor practices in violation of the National Labor Relations Act.

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