Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Broad Contexts
  • Recasting American “Exceptionalismâ€?
  • The State of Courts and Parties
  • 2. Judicial Review in Labor's Political Culture
  • Samuel Gompers and In re Jacobs
  • Hours Laws in Illinois
  • Hours Laws in Colorado
  • Pressed toward a Minimalist Politics
  • 3. Government by Injunction
  • The Origins and Dimensions of Government by Injunction
  • The Origins of Government by Injunction in Railway Strikes
  • The Rise and Repression of City-Wide Boycotts
  • 4. Semi-Outlawry
  • The Usurpation of Local PolitiesCourts and the Uses of Police, Guards and Troops
  • Labor's Resort to Injunctions
  • 5. The Language of the Law and the Remaking of Labor's Rights Consciousness
  • “Labor's Whole Gospel Is Liberty of Contractâ€?
  • Labor's Constitution
  • A Great Popular Defiance
  • Anti-Injunction Laws before Norris-LaGuardia
  • The Norris-LaGuardia Act
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Labor Legislation in the Courts, 1885â€?1930
  • Appendix B: Approximating the Numbers of Labor Injunctions and Their Relation to Other Strike Statistics, 1880â€?1930