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"Only One Place of Redress" presents a bold reinterpretation of the relationship between governmental regulations of the marketplace and economic opportunity for blacks. Bernstein challenges the conventional wisdom and invites readers to reconsider breezy assumptions about how employment regulations operated."--James W. Ely, Jr., author of "The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights"
List of contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
1. Emigrant Agent Laws
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2. Licensing Laws 121
3. Railroad Labor Regulations
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4. Prevailing-Wage Laws
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5. New Deal Labor Laws 353
Documents
Section 1: Federal Acts and Resolutions 486
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Section 2: State Legislation 519
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Section 3: Municipal Resolutions 537
Section 4: Advocacy and Activism 560
Section 5: Case Studies of Redress
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Section 6: Lawsuits 661
Selected Bibliography 673
Contributors 683
Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687 687
Index 691
About the author
David E. Bernstein is Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and coeditor of Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law.
Summary
Offering a bold reinterpretation of American legal history, the author argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment of those who lacked political power.
