Author Description

New authors Michael Harper and Samuel Estreicher tackle the tough questions central to a modern course in Labor Law in this extensive revision of Bernard Meltzer and Stanley Henderson's long respected casebook- LABOR LAW: Cases, Materials, and Problems. Retaining a rigorous analytical focus on the arguments lawyers make before the NLRB, in courts, and in Congress, the Fourth Edition will challenge your students with questions such as Why have unions in private firms declined from 35 percent of American workers in the 1950s to less than 12 percent today? New features include: pervasive integration of law and policy greater emphasis on issues of labor law reform new chapters on labor economics and labor theory new narratives, notes, and questions throughout a better balance between regulatory and deregulatory, and labor, management, and individual worker perspectives To help your students better understand the material, the new co-authors pay particual attention to the accessibility of this new edition through: streamlined editing of cases enhanced textual explanations of economics and comparative law materials captions for all note material explanations of note cases frequent references to theoretical and empirical debates in the academic literature carefull treatment of the evolution of labor law doctrine