Capital, Labor, and State(English, Paperback, Robertson David Brian)

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Capital, Labor, and State(English, Paperback, Robertson David Brian) is written by Robertson David Brian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0847697290 (ISBN 10) and 9780847697298 (ISBN 13).

Capital, Labor, and State is a systematic and thorough examination of American labor policy from the Civil War to the New Deal. David Brian Robertson skillfully demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labor conditions in the 1900s, the United States continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions. Robertson argues that the American constitution made it much more difficult for the American Federation of Labor, government, and business to cooperate for mutual gain as extensively as their counterparts abroad, so that even at the height of New Deal, American labor market policy remained a patchwork of limited protections, uneven laws, and poor enforcement, lacking basic national standards even for child labor.