National Labor Relations Act

Bibliography

Books

• Bernanke, Ben S. Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
• Dubofsky, Melvyn. The State and Labor in Modern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
• Edsforth, Ronald. The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000.
• Forbath, William E. Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
• Huthmacher, Joseph J. Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
• Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Klare, Karl E. “Judicial Deradicalization of the Wagner Act and the Origins of Modern Legal Consciousness, 1937–1941.” In The Great Depression and the New Deal, vol. 7, ed. Melvyn Dubofsky and Stephen Burwood. New York: Garland, 1990.
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• Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
• Strecker, David E. Labor Law: A Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011.
• Tomlins, Christopher L. The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
• ———. “The New Deal, Collective Bargaining, and the Triumph of Industrial Pluralism.” In The Great Depression and the New Deal, vol. 7, ed. Melvyn Dubofsky and Stephen Burwood. New York: Garland, 1990.
• Walker, Alexis N. Divided Unions: The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Websites

• “1930s: National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (‘The Wagner Act').” Charles University American Studies “Documents of American History II” website. http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Documents/1930s/LaborRelationsAct_1935.html.
• National Labor Relations Board website. http://www.nlrb.gov/.
• Wagner, Robert Ferdinand (1877–1953).Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021.