The Workplace Constitution from the Ne Deal to the Ne Right [Hardcover]

This book explains why most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job and can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all.Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explain why. It takes readers back to the 1930s and 1940s when advocates across the political spectrum  labor leaders, civil rights advocates, and conservatives opposed to government regulation  set out to enshrine constitutional rights in the workplace.Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explain why. It takes readers back to the 1930s and 1940s when advocates across the political spectrum  labor leaders, civil rights advocates, and conservatives opposed to government regulation  set out to enshrine constitutional rights in the workplace.Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explain why. It takes readers back to the 1930s and 1940s when advocates across the political spectrum  labor leaders, civil rights advocates, and conservatives opposed to government regulation  set out to enshrine constitutional rights in the workplace. The book tells their interlocking stories of fighting for constitutional protections for American workers, recovers their surprising successes, explains their ultimate failure, and helps readers assess this outcome.Introduction; Part I. Crafting the Workplace Constitutions in the New Deal 1930s and 1940s: 1. Liberals forge a workplace constitution in the courts; 2. Agencies discover the liberal workplace constitution; 3. Conservatives create a workplace constitution in the courts; Part II. Advancing the Workplace Cl¤