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Title: Workers' Rights and the Distributive Constitution.
Authors: Forbath, William E.1
Source: Dissent (0012-3846). Spring2012, Vol. 59 Issue 2, p58-65. 8p.
Subject Terms: *Collective bargaining, Workers' rights, Constitutions, Equality, Americans, Progressivism (United States politics), Industrialization, Urbanization, Corporate political activity, Labor unions
Geographic Terms: United States
Abstract: The article discusses workers' rights and the distributive tradition of constitutional laws in the U.S. It says that the constitutional tradition provide new paths for establishing judge-made law that will address the economic needs of ordinary citizens and promises equal opportunity to them. It mentions that Progressivism is formed in the wake of industrialization and urbanization as well as the growing power in corporations and class inequalities. It states that employees have fundamental rights to build labor unions, engage in political activity, and collective bargaining with their employers under the 13th and 14th Amendments.
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