TY - BOOK ID - 142824610 TI - Broken promise : the subversion of U.S. labor relations policy, 1947-1994 PY - 1995 SN - 1439903700 PB - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Labor policy KW - Industrial relations KW - Labor laws and legislation KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142824610 AB - The Wagner Act of 1935 (later the Wagner-Taft-Hartley Act of 1947) was intended to democratize vast numbers of American workplaces: the federal government was to encourage worker organization and the substitution of collective bargaining for employers' unilateral determination of vital work-place matters. Yet this system of industrial democracy was never realized; the promise was ""broken."" In this rare inside look at the process of government regulation over the last forty-five years, James A. Gross analyzes why the promise of the policy was never fulfilled. Gross looks at how the Nati ER -