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- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- 3 Yesterday’s Labor Law and Today’s Challenges
- 4 The National Labor Relations Board in the Twenty-First Century
- 5 Beyond the Race to the Bottom
- 6 Union Rights for All
- 7 Public Sector Innovations
- 8 Combatting Union Monopoly Power
- 9 The Case for Repealing the Firm Exemption to Antitrust
- 10 Make Labor Organizing a Civil Right
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
9 - The Case for Repealing the Firm Exemption to Antitrust
(A Modest Proposal; or, a Response to Professor Epstein)
from Part II - Labor Law Is Out of Date
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- 3 Yesterday’s Labor Law and Today’s Challenges
- 4 The National Labor Relations Board in the Twenty-First Century
- 5 Beyond the Race to the Bottom
- 6 Union Rights for All
- 7 Public Sector Innovations
- 8 Combatting Union Monopoly Power
- 9 The Case for Repealing the Firm Exemption to Antitrust
- 10 Make Labor Organizing a Civil Right
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Summary
Arguments against the labor exemption to antitrust law are nothing new. While it is unlikely that the labor exemption will be literally repealed, the political orientation that the argument for repeal represents has, in effect, already won. The argument is important not because the obstacles that antitrust law places in the way of labor organizing are the most significant challenges facing American labor today (though they are important). Rather, it is important because it is perhaps the purest text for the underlying worldview that has driven the more general legal hostility toward the economic coordination rights of working people over the last few decades, which several other chapters in this volume set out in greater detail.
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