| War, Law, and Labour: The Munitions Acts, State Regulation, and the Unions 1915-1921 Contributor(s): Rubin, Gerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198255381 ISBN-13: 9780198255383 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $84.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1988 Annotation: This study of the connection between industrial relations and the law during and directly after the First World War reconstructs the tensions between the corporatist aspirations of the state officials who drafted and attempted to enforce the Munitions Act, and the efforts of organized labor to defend its sectional interests against this corporatist thrust. Rubin analyzes the unions' partial success in turning the Tribunal into a forum for collective bargaining. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Labor & Employment - Law | Legal History - History | Military - World War I |
| Dewey: 344.41 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.15 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study of the connection between industrial relations and the law during and directly after the First World War reconstructs the tensions between the corporatist aspirations of the state officials who drafted and attempted to enforce the Munitions Act, and the efforts of organized labor to defend its sectional interests against this corporatist thrust. Rubin analyzes the unions' partial success in turning the Tribunal into a forum for collective bargaining. |