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Book Review| March 01 2021 Rights Not Interests: Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act by James A. Gross Rights Not Interests: Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act, Gross, James A., Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017, 248 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $21.99 (ebook) Sharon Block Sharon Block Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2021) 18 (1): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8767471 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sharon Block; Rights Not Interests: Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act by James A. Gross. Labor 1 March 2021; 18 (1): 113–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8767471 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsLabor Search Advanced Search The proportion of workers in the United States represented by a union in the private sector is now lower than before the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed. Since the mid-1970s, we have watched a steady decline of the labor movement that has lately accelerated, arguably to a collapse. The causes of this collapse are many — changes in our economy from a predominantly industrial character to a service-oriented character; evolving business models, particularly the fissuring of those models, that make traditional organizing strategies ineffective; and US trade policy that puts tremendous downward pressure on wages for American workers. There also is a set of causes that are more clearly intrinsic to the National Labor Relations Act — weaknesses there from enactment and others introduced over the years. Professor James A. Gross has produced some of the most insightful and... © 2021 by Labor and Working-Class History Association2021 You do not currently have access to this content.
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