One version of the history of the NLRA is that there was a period of militant union activism and striking and the NLRA was passed to codify some labor rights in (implicit) exchange for taming the labor movement and channelling it through less confrontational means 1/x Whether you see the NLRA as a labor victory or as a cynical attempt to cut the sharp edges off of the American labor movement, one thing is clear: since the passage of the NLRA courts have worked to narrow and deradicalize the strongest elements 2/x