A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution The Story of a Political, Social, and Cultural Movement

Langue : Anglais

Auteurs : Barrett Jerome T., Barrett Joseph

Couverture de l’ouvrage A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution

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A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution offers a comprehensive review of the various types of peaceful practices for resolving conflicts. Written by Jerome Barrett?a longtime practitioner, innovator, and leading historian in the field of ADR?and his son Joseph Barrett, this volume traces the evolution of the ADR process and offers an overview of the precursors to ADR, including negotiation, arbitration, and mediation. The authors explore the colorful beginnings of ADR using illustrative examples from prehistoric Shaman through the European Law Merchant. In addition, the book offers the historical context for the use of ADR in the arenas of diplomacy and business.

Foreword ix
William J. Usery

Preface xiii

List of Acronyms xxi

ADR Timeline xxv

1. The Roots of ADR: The Deciding Stone to the European Law Merchant 1

2. Diplomatic ADR: Akhenaton to Woodrow Wilson 19

3. ADR Comes to America: The Precolonial Period to the Ten-Hour Day 41

4. The Civil War: The Limits and the Promise of ADR 55

5. Commercial and Business ADR: The Phoenicians to the American Arbitration Association 69

6. Employee and Union Struggles: Reconstruction to the Coal Wars 85

7. Trains and a World War: Pulling ADR into the Twentieth Century 97

8. Labor-Management ADR, 1920–1945: Bust and Boom 111

9. After the War: Taft-Hartley to the Steel Trilogy 125

10. Branching Out: ADR in the 1960s 141

11. New Rights and New Forms: ADR in the 1970s 159

12. Outside the Federal Realm: New Groups Pick Up the ADR Torch 177

13. Crisis and Rebirth: Labor-Management ADR in the 1980s 191

14. The Era of Win-Win: Nonlabor ADR Becomes a Force of Its Own 209

15. The Great Expansion: ADR in the 1990s 239

16. ADR and the Twenty-First Century: Threats and Hopes 259

Bibliography 271

About the Authors 283

Index 285

Jerome T. Barrett–historian, writer, arbitrator, trainer, and mediator–writes a history column for ACResolution quarterly magazine and has served as historian of SPIDR and FMCS.

Joseph P. Barrett is a senior special writer for Page One at the Wall Street Journal.