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Volume 46, Issue 4-5
1 August 2004
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Managerial Law
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Research Article| August 01 2004

Labor law in the United States: the continuing need for reform

Risa L. Lieberwitz
Associate Professor, Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-8014
Print ISSN: 0309-0558
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2004
Managerial Law (2004) 46 (4-5): 53–70.
https://doi.org/10.1108/03090550410771116

Looks at the decline of unionization in the USA, and its future prognosis, with regard to the labour laws. States that a conservative ideology now favours capitalistic interests over workers’ rights, which divert negotiations with regard to unionizing with free collective bargaining.

Keywords: Trade unions, Trade union recognition, United States of America
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