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Andrias on Plutocracy and Constitutional Labor Rights
Kate Andrias (Columbia University - Law School) has posted The Contested Constitution: Plutocrats, Right-Wing Populists, and Labor Rights in the U.S. (Rivista Di Diritti Comparati, 2025) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Constitutional labor rights have long been negligible in the United States. Now, with the ascendance of Donald Trump’s right-wing authoritarianism, even statutory labor rights are under threat. Yet there is an apparent paradox: While the Trump Administration seeks to declare the NLRB unconstitutional and has decimated federal workers’ rights, Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement rose to power in part by invoking the plight of the American worker.