Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Broad Contexts Recasting American "Exceptionalism" The State of Courts and Parties

2. Judicial Review in Labor's Political Culture

Samuel Gompers and in Jacobs

Hours Laws in Illinois

Hours Laws in Colorado

Pressed toward a Minimalist Politics

3. Government by Injunction

The Origins and Dimensions of Government by Injunction

The Origins of Governmentby Injunction in Railway Strikes

The Rise and Repression of City-Wide Boycotts

4. Semi-Outlawry

The Usurpation of Local Polities Courts and the Uses of Police, Guards and Troops

Labor's Resort to Injunctions

5. The Language of the Law and the Remaking of Labor's

Rights Consciousness

"Labor's Whole Gospel Is Liberty of Contract"

Labor's Constitution

A Great Popular Defiance

Anti-Injunction Laws before Norris-LaGuardia

The Norris-LaGuardia Act

Conclusion

Appendix A: Labor Legislation in the Courts, 1885-1930

Appendix B: Approximating the Numbers of Labor Injunctions and Their Relation to Other Strike Statistics, 1880-1930

Appendix C: Judicial Treatment of Statutes Seeking to Protect Union Organizing and Action by Revising Equity and Common Law Doctrine

Index

William E. Forbath is Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair at the University of Texas School of Law.