Taft-Hartley Act - Milestone Documents

Taft-Hartley Act

( 1947 )

Bibliography

Articles

  • Halpern, Martin. “Taft-Hartley and the Defeat of the Progressive Alternative in the UAW.” Labor History 27, no. 2 (Spring 1986): 204–226.

Books

  • Dubofsky, Melvyn. The State and Labor in Modern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
  • Ginger, Ann Fagan, and David Christiano, eds. The Cold War against Labor: An Anthology. 2 vols. Berkeley, Calif.: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, 1987.
  • Gross, James A. The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937–1947. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981.
  • ———. Broken Promise: The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations Policy, 1947–1994. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
  • Halpern, Martin. UAW Politics in the Cold War Era. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.
  • ———. Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century.Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003.
  • Higgins, John E., ed. The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 2006.
  • Lee, R. Alton, Truman and Taft-Hartley: A Question of Mandate. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1966.
  • Millis, Harry A, and Emily Clark Brown. From the Wagner Act to Taft-Hartley: A Study of National Labor Policy and Labor Relations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950.
  • Schrecker, Ellen W. “McCarthyism and the Labor Movement: The Role of the State.” In The CIO's Left-Led Unions, ed. Steve Rosswurm. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
  • 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.

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