Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2024
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59015/wlr.QSAD4915
Abstract
This Essay explores recent efforts by worker organizations to transform labor policy in states, as well as countermobilizations by business and conservative groups. It focuses on two particularly promising efforts: the development of worker standards boards and pro-labor changes to state constitutional law. It shows why, as a matter of political economy, such reforms have been achievable at the state and local levels, but not the federal level, and explores the potential of state reforms to build greater economic and political power for working people, notwithstanding limits imposed by federal preemption doctrine. Ultimately, this Essay argues that these recent innovations in state labor law have the potential not only to reshape U.S. labor policy but also to serve as a model for a more democratic approach to administrative governance and constitutional law generally.
Disciplines
Administrative Law | Constitutional Law | Labor and Employment Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Kate Andrias,
Constitutional and Administrative Innovation Through State Labor Law,
2024
Wis. L. Rev.
1467
(2024).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4608
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Administrative Law Commons, Constitutional Law Commons, Labor and Employment Law Commons
Comments
Copyright 2024 by The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System; Reprinted by permission of the Wisconsin Law Review.