Title | Still Unjaded: Jim Atleson’s Twenty-First Century Turn to International Labor Law |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Compa, L. |
Journal | Buffalo Law Review |
Volume | 57 |
Issue | 3 |
Pagination | 767 - 779 |
Keywords | international labor law, Jim Atelson, labor law, organizing, Values and Assumptions |
Abstract | [Excerpt] I came late to the academy and am still more of a trade unionist than a scholar, so I am going to start my remarks from this perspective. When Jim wrote Values and Assumptions I was in my earlier life as a union staffer with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), a great, democratic, independent left-wing union. Like everyone else on the union staff, I was a generalist and an itinerant. I received organizing and bargaining assignments in New England, the Carolinas, and Baltimore, corporate campaign assignments in South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and California, political and legislative assignments in Washington, and a dozen other projects. It was nonstop action from the time I started working for the UE after finishing law school in 1973. |
URL | http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/255/ |