A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937

by William G. Ross

Book Overview

For half a century before 1937, populists, progressives, and labor leaders complained bitterly that a "judicial oligarchy" impeded social and economic reform by imposing crippling restraints on trade unions and nullifying legislation that regulated business corporations. A Muted Fury, the first study of this neglected chapter in American political and legal history, explains the origins of hostility toward the courts during the Progressive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691634033
• ISBN13: 9780691634036
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"