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  • The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law

    Edición de Michael A. McCann ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law takes the reader through the most important controversies and critical developments in law and U.S. sports. Over the course of 30 chapters, leading scholars explore this expanding and captivating area of law. The Handbook is the first book to gather dozens of perspectives on sports law controversies in the United States, and will be of interest to those ... Leer más

    $151.99 USD

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  • Brown v. Board of Education

    A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

    de James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • A People's History of the Supreme Court

    The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution: Revised Edition

    de Peter Irons ...
    A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court featuring a forward by Howard ZinnRecent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's classic A People's ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Labour Before the Law

    The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948

    de Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major judicial decisions that transformed the labour relations regime of liberal voluntarism, which ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

    de Tamar Herzog ...
    A "lucid" analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas ( Publishers Weekly).Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sport and the Law

    Historical and Cultural Intersections

    Edición de Samuel O. Regalado, Sarah K. Fields ...
    Series series Sport, culture, and society
    This new collection examines not only how athletes looked to the nation’s judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases trans¬formed the interpretation of laws. These essays examine a vast array of social and legal controversies including Heywood v. NBA (1971), which allowed any player to enter the draft; Flood v. Kuhn (1972), which considered baseball’s antitrust status; the Danny ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Concept of the Employer

    de Jeremias Prassl ...
    Series series Oxford Labour Law
    Employment law has increasingly struggled to adapt to complex modern work arrangements, from agency work to corporate groups. This book suggests that the reason for this failure can be found in our concept of the employer, which has become riddled with internal contradictions in its search for a unitary employer, the counterparty to a bilateral contract, through a series of multi-functional tests ... Leer más

    $38.69 USD

  • Rights Delayed

    The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950

    de Charles W. Romney ...
    Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic anti-communism and southern conservatives in Congress as the forces that diminished the New Deal state, eliminated progressive unions, and destroyed the radical potential of American liberalism. Rights ... Leer más

    $104.99 USD

  • A Class by Herself

    Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s

    de Nancy Woloch ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws—from their roots in progressive ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Only One Place of Redress

    African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal

    de David E. Bernstein, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he 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. Both intentionally and incidentally, claims Bernstein, ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955

    Edición de Douglas Hay, Paul Craven ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers. The English model was adopted, modified, and reinvented in more than a thousand ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Drowning in Laws

    Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture

    de John D. French ...
    Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world’s most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John D. French examines the juridical origins of the CLT and the role it played in the cultural and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD