The Taft-Hartley Act

Abstract

I. Basic American labor conditions and distinctive characteristics of American trade unions, 1. — II. Efforts of the government to protect the right to organize and some of their unintended results, 6. — III. Provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, 8. — IV. Areas where the law has not brought about important changes, 12. — V. Areas where the law has produced important changes, 21. — VI. Good features of the law, 20. — VII. Provisions of the law which deal with the “right” problems, but which are poorly worked out, 23. — VIII. Bad provisions in the law, 28. — IX. Basic characteristics of a good law, 29.