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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880â1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Description: Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to âthe labour question.â The labour question was rooted in the system of wage labour that spread throughout much of Europe and its colonies and produced contending classes as industrialization unfolded. Answers to the Labour Question explores how the liberal state responded to workersâ demands that employers recognize trade unions as their legitimate representatives in their struggle for compensation and control over the workplace.In Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880â1945 (University of Toronto Press, 2024), Dr. Gary Mucciar...