Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 3
5. I. The Beginnings of Railway Labor Legislation 14
6. II. The Railroad Administration and the Railroad Labor Board 31
7. III. The Railway Labor Act of 1926 47
8. IV. Railway Collective Bargaining and the Railway Labor Act 1926 Through 1934 60
9. V. The 1934 Amendments 73
10. VI. Federal Full-Crew, Train-Limit, and Six-Hour-Day Legislation 88
11. VII. Consolidation and Job Protection 102
12. VIII. The Establishment of a Separate Railway Social Security System 118
13. IX. The Expansion of the Railway Social Security System 132
14. X. Collective Bargaining and the Railway Labor Act, 1935–1941 154
15. XI. Railway Labor Relations During World War II 172
16. XII. Railway Collective Bargaining Since World War II 188
17. XIII. The Diesel Movement 209
18. XIV. Changes in the Railway Labor Act After World War II 223
19. Table of Cases 239
20. Glossary 241
21. Bibliography 243
22. Index 251