- 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 re 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 Government by 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


Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement
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Publication Date: 05/01/1991