Bernstein / Devins / Graber Only One Place of Redress

African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8305-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten

Reihe: Constitutional conflicts

Focuses on the role facially-neutral labor regulations played in institutionalizing discrimination against African Americans in the period between Reconstruction and the civil rights era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernstein, David E.

Devins, Neal

Graber, Mark A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction 1

1. Emigrant Agent Laws
33

2. Licensing Laws 121

3. Railroad Labor Regulations
203

4. Prevailing-Wage Laws
275

5. New Deal Labor Laws 353

Documents

Section 1: Federal Acts and Resolutions 486
486

Section 2: State Legislation 519
519

Section 3: Municipal Resolutions 537

Section 4: Advocacy and Activism 560

Section 5: Case Studies of Redress
638

Section 6: Lawsuits 661

Selected Bibliography 673

Contributors 683

Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687 687

Index 691

Über Autor(innen)

David E. Bernstein is Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and coeditor of Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law.