The law and labor strife in the United States, 1881-1894

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research; Northwestern University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700024645
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 42-66
• 关键词: strikes

摘要

This article examines the effects of state-level legal innovations governing labor disputes in the late 1800s, This was a period of legal ferment in which worker organizations and employers actively lobbied state governments for changes in the rules governing labor disputes, Cross-state heterogeneity in the legal environment provides an unusual opportunity to investigate the effects of these laws, We use a unique data set with information on 12,965 strikes to show that most of these law changes had surprisingly little effect on strike incidence or outcomes. Important: exceptions were maximum hours laws and the use of injunctions.