Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Broad Contexts Recasting American "Exceptionalism" The State of Courts and Parties
2. Judicial Review in Labor's Political Culture
Samuel Gompers and in Jacobs
Hours Laws in Illinois
Hours Laws in Colorado
Pressed toward a Minimalist Politics
3. Government by Injunction
The Origins and Dimensions of Government by Injunction
The Origins of Governmentby Injunction in Railway Strikes
The Rise and Repression of City-Wide Boycotts
4. Semi-Outlawry
The Usurpation of Local Polities Courts and the Uses of Police, Guards and Troops
Labor's Resort to Injunctions
5. The Language of the Law and the Remaking of Labor's
Rights Consciousness
"Labor's Whole Gospel Is Liberty of Contract"
Labor's Constitution
A Great Popular Defiance
Anti-Injunction Laws before Norris-LaGuardia
The Norris-LaGuardia Act
Conclusion
Appendix A: Labor Legislation in the Courts, 1885-1930
Appendix B: Approximating the Numbers of Labor Injunctions and Their Relation to Other Strike Statistics, 1880-1930
Appendix C: Judicial Treatment of Statutes Seeking to Protect Union Organizing and Action by Revising Equity and Common Law Doctrine
Index