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This article describes a first-day, in-class exercise that has worked to elevate student awareness of the importance of attentive listening to achieving interpersonal success. Small groups of students answer one of six questions about the impact of the listener's behavior on speakers, and class discussion revolves around their answers. Students learn how important it is to consciously manage listening behavior. This exercise is also an outstanding springboard for introducing topics the professor will discuss later in the semester, including supporting, coaching, disciplining, interviewing, and team building.

Discusses local labor politics in CA, 1901-1991, in the context of recent labor historiography. It is argued that, contrary to an emerging consensus on the effects of labor's interactions with the legal system, at the local level, these interactions did not always decrease independent labor politics or narrow the focus of labor's political concerns. Two examples of encounters between labor & the law are examined: a 1901 City Front Federation strike in San Francisco; & a 1910/11 brewery worker & metal tradesmen strike in Los Angeles. In both instances, legal actions repressing labor rights led to increased collective action & labor participation in independent politics. Implications for labor historiography & suggestions for further research are presented. J. Ferrari

In a 1987 essay on labor and the American constitutional order, Leon Fink observed that, in "American labor history the law has yet to be fully explored." Fink's observation is less true today than when he made it some ten years ago; indeed, even as the essay appeared, a number of historians, legal scholars, and political scientists were already beginning to construct new interpretations of American labor history by focusing on the complex and often decisive impact of the law and legal discourse on labor strategy, politics, and ideology. Although Fink's wide-ranging essay surveyed labor's encounters with the Constitution from the antebellum period to the post-World War II era, he concentrated on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period in which organized labor moved away from a broad politics of reform toward a more conservative, apolitical trade unionism. Fink notes that it was during this period of "'exceptionalist' drift" – when the developmental trajectory of the American labor movement be gan to diverge from its European counterparts – that "legal issues took on their most determining historical role."

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This book investigates the causes and consequences of congressional attacks on the US Supreme Court, arguing that the extent of public support for judicial independence constitutes the practical limit of judicial independence. First, the book presents a historical overview of Court-curbing proposals in Congress. Then, building on interviews with Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, and judicial and legislative staffers, the book theorizes that congressional attacks are driven by public discontent with the Court. From this theoretical model, predictions are derived about the decision to engage in Court-curbing and judicial responsiveness to Court-curbing activity in Congress. The Limits of Judicial Independence draws on illustrative archival evidence, systematic analysis of an original dataset of Court-curbing proposals introduced in Congress from 1877 onward and judicial decisions