Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal »

David E. Bernstein is Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and coeditor of Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law.

Focuses on the role facially-neutral labor regulations played in institutionalizing discrimination against African Americans in the period between Reconstruction and the civil rights era.

Contents

Preface....................[ix] Acknowledgments....................[xi] Introduction....................[1] ONE Emigrant Agent Laws....................[8] TWO Licensing Laws....................[28] THREE Railroad Labor Regulations....................[46] FOUR Prevailing-Wage Laws....................[66] FIVE New Deal Labor Laws....................[85] Conclusion....................[111] Notes....................[119] Bibliography....................[163] Index....................[183]