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The Labor Policy of the Free Society
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Author: Sylvester Petro
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Professor Petro is one of the giants of the Austrian tradition, and he applied his talents to a particular area of specialization: labor policy. This 1957 book covers three main areas: US labor law and experience, the Austrian theory of labor/capital relations, and the true principle of free association at the heart of the free society. So as
The Kohler Strike: Union Violence and Administrative Law
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Author: Sylvester Petro
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Are labor unions merely an example of “free association”? Perhaps in some dreamland, but the real history of American labor organizing tells a different story. This 1961 book by labor economist Sylvester Petro tells a story of the destruction of private property and freedom at the hands of unions. The 1954 strike against Kohler was perhaps the
Power Unlimited: The Corruption of Union Leadership
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Author: Sylvester Petro
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A report on the May 1957 “McClellan Committee Hearings”: the hearing of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Improper Activities in Labor-Management Relations. “The author has chosen well the individual cases which illustrate the methods of the labor bosses. And he has seen the significance of brief as well as lengthy passages in the
Competition, Monopoly and the Role of Government
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Author: Sylvester Petro
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Category: Monopoly and Competition
[ Reprinted from Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader , compiled by Bettina G. Greaves .] The great monopoly problem mankind has to face today is not an outgrowth of the operation of the market economy. It is a product of purposive action on the part of governments. It is not one of the evils inherent in capitalism as the demagogues trumpet. It
The Corruption of Union Leadership
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Author: Sylvester Petro
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Category: Labor and Wages
[ Originally published in The Freeman , May 1, 1959. ] Coercion marks the beginning and corruption the conclusion of the march of union power observ­able in the McClellan Record. The process begins with the use of compulsion to secure members. Thereafter new and different coer­cive devices are used to bind the unwilling employees to the union.
Do Antitrust Laws Preserve Competition?
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Author: Sylvester Petro
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Category: Entrepreneurship, Interventionism, Philosophy and Methodology, World History
Antitrust laws are commonly thought to be the institutions that distinguish the economic system of the United States from the rest of the non-Soviet world. But for these laws, it is said, we should be plagued with cartelization as in Great Britain, Germany, or France. Many believe, in short, that the antitrust laws are responsible for our having a