In Part II, we shall consider how government has attempted to regulate
union and management tactics, weapons, and behavior, and has thus
significantly affected the pattern of collective bargaining in our economy.

We shall observe how the role of government has evolved over
the years: The Norris-La Guardia Act, discussed in Chapter 2, was
primarily laissez-faire in outlook; the purpose of the statute was to pre-
vent law from interfering with union-management relations. Then
came the Wagner Act, discussed in Chapter 3, in which government
intervened to assist organized labor to establish collective bargaining
in the face of stiff resistance from hostile employers. With the enact-
ment of the Taft-Hartley law, government placed itself in the position
of policing actions of both labor and management. Chapters 4, 5, 7, and
8 consider some of the problems which arise out of this new role for
government. Finally, in the Landrum-Griffin Act, discussed in Chapter
6, we find government prescribing detailed regulations for the internal
conduct of labor unions.

Since much useful experimentation by government in labor re-
lations occurs at the state level, Part II concludes with an analysis in
Chapter 9 of state controls on labor-management relations.

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