Compulsory Unionism as a Fraternal Conceit?

With the publication of Free Choice for Workers: a History of the Right to Work Movement, George Leef reexamines compulsory labor unions and to contest the justification offered in support of America’s labor laws. Leef’s perspective delegitimizes compulsory unionism on ethical and empirical grounds. Demonstrating that statutory compulsion fails to direct society toward progress, the book reveals that the road to serfdom can often be paved by bureaucratic regulation. Carefully examining history and contemporary events, this book contributes to the richly textured debate about the normative role of unions in a putatively free society. George Leef’s reassessment offers an essentially contractarian and liberal model of labor relations that rests on a vision of individual rights that have a clearly defined, independent existence predating society. From this perspective, George Leef specifies liberty as a desirable good in and of itself which is placed in harm’s way by progressive ideals and constructs. Far from operating as an anti-union document, Free Choice for Workers functions as a pro-union manuscript grounded in the conclusion that unions operate as defensible institutions and laudable associations, when and only if, they represent workers who join voluntarily

We preach Christ : recovering the gospel in Christian preaching

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Liberal Hegemony - School Vouchers and the Future of the Race

This Article examines the school voucher debate. Because “the causes of poverty within the black community are both structural and behavioral,” and because the available evidence provides an inferential connection between education and poverty, I contend that the reigning legal and political theory as embedded in, and as explicated by the constitutional jurisprudence of the Zelman dissenters, and as exemplified by other commentators, fails to address adequately racial disparity and neglects to consider adequately the victims of the current public school hegemony. Hence, the legitimacy of much of the current opposition to school vouchers remains indefensible form an outsider perspective