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Those Who Travail and Are Heavy Laden

Memoir of a Labor Lawyer
  • William B. Gould IV
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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As Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board under President Bill Clinton, William B. Gould IV became widely known for "saving baseball," to quote the former president, for helping to end the 1994-95 Major League Baseball strike. This was only one of the many highlights of a career spanning six decades during which Gould was at the center of every major labor and employment law issue in the US from the development of collective bargaining to employment discrimination and arbitration.

In this remarkable memoir, Gould effortlessly ties his career in labor law and civil rights to his heritage, his upbringing, and his inspirations. Not merely a recounting of events, this autobiography is deeply researched. The author took pains to ferret out and reveal to us the ultimate impact and consequences of the many cases he’s been involved in over the years, excavating not only his memory but the legal terrain of his lifetime of service to the cause of worker’s rights, civil rights, and the advancement and equality of Black Americans. In the tradition of his great-grandfather, the first William B. Gould, whose Civil War diary told of his daring escape from slavery and service in the Union Navy (which would become the basis for Diary of a Contraband), the author kept meticulous diaries that have served him well.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    PREFACE

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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    Chapter 1: Song for My Father: The Goulds I Knew and Discovered

    1
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    Chapter 2: My Path to Labor Law: McCarthyism, Civil Rights, and Brown v. Board of Education

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    Chapter 3: Detroit and United Auto Workers: My Labor Law Beginnings

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    Chapter 4: “Too Much Labor Law”: The LSE and a Labour Party Perspective

    111
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    Chapter 5: Arbitration and Mediation: Labor Disputes in Washington, DC, and New York City

    131
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    Chapter 6: Back to Detroit: Wayne State, Public Employees, and Detroit Edison

    169
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    Chapter 7: Go West (and East), Young Man: Teaching, Affirmative Action, Politics, Travel

    207
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    Chapter 8: Promoting Labor Rights and Standards Abroad: South Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe

    245
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    Chapter 9: Baseball Comes to Stanford Law: Salary Arbitration and a New Course in Sports Law

    283
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    Chapter 10: Mr. Gould Goes to Washington: The Politics of the Confirmation Process

    333
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    Chapter 11: Chairman of the Board: The Baseball Strike and the NLRB

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    Chapter 12: Return to California: Writers, Bus Drivers, Farm Workers, and More

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    Epilogue

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    Appendix 1

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    Appendix 2

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    Appendix 3

    483
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    Appendix 4

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    Appendix 6

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    Appendix 7

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    Appendix 8

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    Appendix 9

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    Appendix 10

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    Index

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    About the Author

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781965358085
eBook ISBN: 9781965358085
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