The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board

Download or read book The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board written by James A. Gross and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1982-06-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, covering the years 1937–1947, James A. Gross describes and analyzes the NLRB's vigorous and uncompromising enforcement of the Wagner Act and the intense political pressure to which the Board was subjected as a consequence. He identifies and examines the forces that succeeded in pressuring the NLRB out of its essential role in the making of U.S. labor policy. This is the story of the transformation of the NLRB from an expert administrative agency that played a major role in the making of labor policy, into an insecure, politically sensitive agency preoccupied with its own survival and reduced to deciding marginal issues.