The New Jersey Law Journal, January, 1922

A window into American jurisprudence at a pivotal crossroads. This January 1922 issue of the New Jersey Law Journal captures a profession wrestling with the fundamental tensions of industrial America: the rights of workers versus the powers of corporations, the boundaries of collective action, and the ancient machinery of civil procedure adapting to modern economic warfare. The journal dissects Supreme Court decisions on secondary boycotts and picketing, examining how the highest court in the land was beginning to define the legal limits of labor organization in the post-War economy. Editor A. Van Doren Honeyman presents these cases not as abstract legal exercises but as the front lines where the rules of American capitalism were being written. For historians, legal scholars, and anyone curious about the foundations of modern labor law, this volume offers primary source documentation of an era when the relationship between capital and labor was still being negotiated in courtrooms across the nation.