Legal Definition and Related Resources of Closed Shop

A condition whereby union membership is a condition precedent to employment in a particular trade or calling .

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Closed Shop in Historical Law

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Legal English Vocabulary: Closed Shop in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term closed shop into Spanish: obligación de reclutar trabajadores sindicalizados (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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Commons, John R., et al. History of Labour in the United States. 4 vols. See especially Volume 1, Part 6. New York: Macmillan, 1946. The original edition was published in 1918.

Hanson, Charles Goring, Sheila Jackson, and Douglas Miller. The Closed Shop: A Comparative Study in Public Policy and Trade Union Security in Britain, the USA, and West Germany. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981.

Harris, Howell John. Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Rustin, Bayard. “Right to Work” Laws; A Trap for America’s Minorities. New York: A. Phillip Randolph Institute, 1967.

Schiller, Reuel E. “From Group Rights to Individual Liberties: Post-War Labor Law, Liberalism, and the Waning of Union Strength.” Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 20, no. 1 (1999): 1.

Sultan, Paul E. Right-to-Work Laws: Study in Conflict. Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, 1958.

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• Trade Unionism
• Trade Union
• Chartism
• Trade Union Legislation