The Making of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law 1933-1937

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SUNY Press, 1974 M01 1 - 265 pages
Definitive study of the NLRB as an administrative agency which became one of the most important political and legal developments in the last century as it influenced the growth of a national labor policy and the use of administrative processes and legal methods in U.S. labor relations. Fifty in-depth oral history interviews with individuals prominent in the history of NLRB supplement data from NLRB files and the National Archives.
 

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PostConstitutionality The NLRBs Vigorous Enforcement of the Wagner Act
12
Controversial NLRB Decisions A Public Attack and a Political Reaction
31
The AFLNLRB Alliance Weakening But Still Effective
49
The AFLEmployer Alliance Solidifies
68
The Aftermath of the 1938 Congressional Elections Senate and House Hearings on Amendments and a Special House Committee to Investigate the N...
92
Leiserson and Witt An Internal Power Struggle
116
Communists and Other Leftists at the NLRB
136
The Special House Committee to Investigate the NLRB
156
The Smith Bill to Amend the Wagner Act
190
The Triumph of the AntiNLRB Conservatives A GreenSmith Alliance Leads to Passage of the Smith Bill
203
A New NLRB
229
A New Labor Policy
244
Concluding Observations
263
Notes to Chapter 1
271
Index
368
Copyright

The NLRB Under Investigation Regional Directors Trial Examiners and Review Attorneys
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