Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States
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ISBN 10
052142254X
ISBN 13
9780521422543
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Publication Year
1992
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Pages
252
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Contrary to the idea that the United States was liberal from its inception, Orren argues that both capitalism and constitutionalism proceeded upon a remnant of ancient feudalism. This was the common law of master and servant, embedded in the judiciary, cutting off the fundamental area of labor governance from democratic politics. The fully legislative polity that defines the modern liberal state was brought on through the industrial actions of trade unions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was established with the institutions of collective bargaining under the New Deal. The book represents a reinterpertation of American political development and of the role of the labor movement as a creator of liberalism, not a spoiler of socialism. - from Amzon
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1
Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 1507 | KF894 .O77 1991 | 1 | Yes |