Introduction to Labor Law

by Michael Evan Gold

Book Overview

An Introduction to Labor Law is a useful and course-tested primer that explains the basic principles of the federal law regulating the relationship of employers to labor unions. In this updated third edition, which features a new introduction, Michael Evan Gold discusses the law that applies to union organizing and representation elections, the duty to bargain in good faith, economic weapons such as strikes and lockouts, and the enforcement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801479223
• ISBN13: 9780801479229
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview

An Introduction to Labor Law will give you excellent high-level, balanced overview of Labor Law. It is a quick and easy read that is not too technical and easy for a lay person to understand. Worth your time if your looking to get a quick overview, but if you are looking for more in-depth coverage of the law there are other resources that will do a better job.

Good Labor Law Book

If you want to get a basic grasp of labor law under the Wagner Act or NLRA, this book is for you.

An excellent concise summary of American labor law

This slim volume is an excellent, concise summary of American labor law. The labor law expert will learn nothing new from Gold's work but will nevertheless find it a handy quick reference. Gold's work is more of a reduced precis of a labor law hornbook, and as such, law students will find it to be an excellent summary of a labor law course. That is, labor law reduced to black letter law in clearly written sentences. Gold adeptly reduces the opaque National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to its basic components and clearly explains its major provisions. Keep in mind its title: An Introduction to Labor Law. Those seeking an in depth discussion of labor law will be disappointed and would do better to consult other work's such as Gorman's hornbook on labor law, but those seeking a basic introduction, or a concise summary of the NLRA will find this an invaluable source. Excellent as a review for a labor law final examination.