History of Alternative Dispute Resolution

Jerome T. Barrett–historian, writer, arbitrator, trainer, and mediator–writes a history column for ACResolution quarterly magazine and has served as historian of SPIDR and FMCS. Joseph P. Barrett is a senior special writer for Page One at the Wall Street Journal.

• Foreword ixWilliam J. UseryPreface xiiiList of Acronyms xxiADR Timeline xxv1. The Roots of ADR: The Deciding Stone to the European Law Merchant 12. Diplomatic ADR: Akhenaton to Woodrow Wilson 193. ADR Comes to America: The Precolonial Period to the Ten-Hour Day 414. The Civil War: The Limits and the Promise of ADR 555. Commercial and Business ADR: The Phoenicians to the American Arbitration Association 696. Employee and Union Struggles: Reconstruction to the Coal Wars 857. Trains and a World War: Pulling ADR into the Twentieth Century 978. Labor-Management ADR, 1920–1945: Bust and Boom 1119. After the War: Taft-Hartley to the Steel Trilogy 12510. Branching Out: ADR in the 1960s 14111. New Rights and New Forms: ADR in the 1970s 15912. Outside the Federal Realm: New Groups Pick Up the ADR Torch 17713. Crisis and Rebirth: Labor-Management ADR in the 1980s 19114. The Era of Win-Win: Nonlabor ADR Becomes a Force of Its Own 20915. The Great Expansion: ADR in the 1990s 23916. ADR and the Twenty-First Century: Threats and Hopes 259Bibliography 271About the Authors 283Index 285