Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United StatesContrary to the idea that the United States was liberal from its inception, Orren argues that both capitalism and constitutionalism proceeded upon a remnant of ancient feudalism. This was the common law of master and servant, embedded in the judiciary, cutting off the fundamental area of labor governance from democratic politics. The fully legislative polity that defines the modern liberal state was brought on through the industrial actions of trade unions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was established with the institutions of collective bargaining under the New Deal. The book represents a reinterpertation of American political development and of the role of the labor movement as a creator of liberalism, not a spoiler of socialism. |
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Contents
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The template of enticement | 122 |
Contract breaking | 128 |
The peaceable boycott | 135 |
Outside of the province of working men | 145 |
A new technical channel | 154 |
Masters servants and the new American state | 160 |
Railroad rates and labor costs | 164 |
The economy of speed | 173 |
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Relative liberty | 91 |
The province of work | 102 |
The province and the republic | 111 |
The old order and collective action | 118 |
A clear line | 182 |
Regulation by anachronism | 189 |
A new American state | 198 |
Actual conditions and practicable measures | 204 |
Conclusion the state of liberalism | 209 |
Full legislative sovereignty | 211 |
The diffusion of legislative forms | 215 |
Legislative polity and administrative state | 218 |
Labor politics pure and simple | 221 |
Myths old and new | 227 |
Index | 231 |
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| Title | Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States |
| Authors | Karen Orren, Professor Karen Orren |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 052142254X, 9780521422543 |
| Length | 238 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / American Government / General Political Science / History & Theory |
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