Introduction to Labor Law

In An Introduction to Labor Law, Michael Evan Gold provides useful and timely information on labor law that should complement research in current and future topics in labor relations....This book can be used as a guide for labor law, past and present, for both policy-makers and researchers....The book provides a clear and concise description of labor law concepts and provides answers to many questions in labor relations. Moreover, the book also provokes questions and ideas regarding what should be no doubt new explorations into changes in labor law as it pertains to economic growth industries such as college athletics and health care.― Christopher K. Coombs â•Journal of Labor Research

An Introduction to Labor Law  is a useful primer that explains the basic principles of the federal law regulating the relationship of employers to labor unions. In this updated third edition, which features a new introduction, Michael Evan Gold discusses the law that applies to union organizing and representation elections, the duty to bargain in good faith, economic weapons such as strikes and lockouts, and the enforcement of collective bargaining agreements.

Gold describes the structure and functions of the National Labor Relations Board and of the federal courts in regard to labor cases and also presents a number of legal issues presently in contention between labor and management. 

Michael Evan Gold is Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at Cornell University. He is the author of A Dialogue on Comparable Worth and An Introduction to the Law of Employment Discrimination, both from Cornell.