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David Brian Robertson. Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Pp. xxii, 297. $22.95, paper.
The Journal of Economic History (2001)
  • Joshua L. Rosenbloom, University of Kansas
Abstract
American employers today enjoy considerably greater latitude in the labor market than do employers in other industrialized economies. Laws protecting unions are weaker, employers can more easily hire and fire workers, minimum-wage laws are less binding, the government plays a smaller role in managing the labor market through public employment offices, and work and unemployment insurance programs are smaller and less costly to employers in the United States than elsewhere. In this book David Brian Robertson, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, offers an explanation for the unique pattern of labor-market governance that has emerged in the United States.
Publication Date
June, 2001
Citation Information
Joshua L. Rosenbloom. "David Brian Robertson. Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Pp. xxii, 297. $22.95, paper." The Journal of Economic History Vol. 61 Iss. 2 (2001)
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