The Kansas Court of Industrial Relations

"Revisiting the intense controversy over the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations, this book shows how its defeat reshaped America's law and politics of labor. Ben Merriman explores why the US turned away from the world's most-used labor policy design and toward its unique New Deal model"-- Provided by publisher.

Ben Merriman is Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. Merriman is the author of Conservative Innovators: How States are Challenging Federal Power, as well as articles on political and administrative matters in the American Journal of Sociology, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Politics & Society, and Theory & Society.