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

<p>Foreword ix<br />William J. Usery</p>
<p>Preface xiii</p>
<p>List of Acronyms xxi</p>
<p>ADR Timeline xxv</p>
<p>1. The Roots of ADR: The Deciding Stone to the European Law Merchant 1</p>
<p>2. Diplomatic ADR: Akhenaton to Woodrow Wilson 19</p>
<p>3. ADR Comes to America: The Precolonial Period to the Ten–Hour Day 41</p>
<p>4. The Civil War: The Limits and the Promise of ADR 55</p>
<p>5. Commercial and Business ADR: The Phoenicians to the American Arbitration Association 69</p>
<p>6. Employee and Union Struggles: Reconstruction to the Coal Wars 85</p>
<p>7. Trains and a World War: Pulling ADR into the Twentieth Century 97</p>
<p>8. Labor–Management ADR, 1920 1945: Bust and Boom 111</p>
<p>9. After the War: Taft–Hartley to the Steel Trilogy 125</p>
<p>10. Branching Out: ADR in the 1960s 141</p>
<p>11. New Rights and New Forms: ADR in the 1970s 159</p>
<p>12. Outside the Federal Realm: New Groups Pick Up the ADR Torch 177</p>
<p>13. Crisis and Rebirth: Labor–Management ADR in the 1980s 191</p>
<p>14. The Era of Win–Win: Nonlabor ADR Becomes a Force of Its Own 209</p>
<p>15. The Great Expansion: ADR in the 1990s 239</p>
<p>16. ADR and the Twenty–First Century: Threats and Hopes 259</p>
<p>Bibliography 271</p>
<p>About the Authors 283</p>
<p>Index 285</p>