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After the Constitutional Convention, as the legend goes, the wife of Philadelphia's mayor asked Benjamin Franklin what the delegates had come up with--a monarchy or a republic.

Augustus B Cochran, III ….not concerned to diagnose the cause of workers’ problems, Richman’s analysis implicitly centers work law as the principal culprit responsible for the labour movement’s predicament. He makes a strong case that labour law, rather than balancing the power disparities between employees and employers and protecting worker rights, has instead become a ‘trap’ favoring bosses and impeding worker organization. He deftly analyzes the teeth in the trap (51-53). Most flaws he identifies are well-known: enterprise-level bargaining, a right to strike weakened by perman...