Selected by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library University of California, Berkeley

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12073
• Published date: 01 October 2014
• Date: 01 October 2014
• Author: Terence K. Huwe,Janice Kimball

Recent Publications

Selected by the Institute for Research on Labor and

Employment Library University of California, Berkeley

TERENCE K. HUWE, Director of Library & Information Resources

JANICE KIMBALL, Library Assistant

Baseball on Trial: The Origin of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption.By

Nathaniel Grow. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 978-

0-252-07975-7. 296 pp. $35.00.

Grow covers the controversial 1922 Supreme Court ruling that held that the “business of

base ball”was not subject to the Sherman Antitrust Act because it did not constitute

interstate commerce. He presents a fresh look at the decision and its aftermath, which

lives on in Major League Baseball’s exemption from antitrust law. He argues that the

decision was in fact correct, given the circumstances of the time. Using recently released

documents from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grow charts how the Supreme

Court reached this unexpected result. While interstate commerce is widely regarded as an

exchange of tangible goods, baseball teams in the 1910s offered “entertainment”to their

fans. He concludes that despite the frequent criticism of the opinion, the court’s decision

was consistent with not only the legal climate of the early twentieth century but also the

needs of society.

The Changing Welfare State in Europe: The Implications for Democ-

racy. Edited by David G. Mayes and Anna Michalski. Northampton,

MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014. 978-1-78254-656-6. 272 pp.

$120.00.

The contributors to this volume evaluate the long-term financial sustainability of the Euro-

pean welfare state, questioning its efficiency going forward during an era of fresh turmoil

throughout the European Union. They also explore the more nuanced question of the demo-

cratic legitimacy of a “quasi”European policy, which is important given that member nations

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Vol. 53, No. 4 (October 2014). ©2014 Regents of the University of California

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