How Antitrust Can Help Tame Capital and Empower Labor.

While rarely recognized as such by labor scholars, these decisions were an important part of the deregulatory push of the neoliberal era, as they put increasing numbers of workers outside the protection of labor and employment laws and into the far more employer-friendly terrain of contract law and a new big business-friendly antitrust law. Keywords: antitrust; fissured workplace; labor; law; policy EN antitrust fissured workplace labor law policy 50 58 9 09/11/23 20230901 NES 230901 Graph: The little boy [common people] and the big boys [trusts] prepare for the baseball season. B I ... [A]ntitrust policy in recent decades has had a decidedly mixed record with respect to workers. i b Labor unions, worker centers, and other worker organizations have a chance to seize the opening created by antitrust enforcers' newfound interest in worker welfare to shape the direction of reform. Second, Taft-Hartley excluded independent contractors from the National Labor Relations Act, denying taxi drivers and similar workers access to collective bargaining, and made the misclassification of workers as independent contractors an attractive tactic for employers. [Extracted from the article]