@inbook{10.7591/j.ctt5hh23w.5,
 ISBN = {9780801479229},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt5hh23w.5},
 abstract = {Employers took their labor troubles to court almost as soon as America became independent. We are a nation of many states; each state has its own courts, and they have often disagreed with one another about labor cases. As a result, accurate generalizations about labor law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are hard to make. Nevertheless, most students of early labor law would probably agree that the courts in those days were unsympathetic to unions. Whenever unions devised an effective new tactic against employers (for example, strikes; later, boycotts), the courts responded to employers’ complaints with new laws to},
 bookauthor = {Michael Evan Gold},
 booktitle = {An Introduction to Labor Law},
 edition = {3},
 pages = {10--13},
 publisher = {Cornell University Press},
 title = {LABOR LAW BEFORE THE LABOR ACT},
 year = {2014}
}