A history of alternative dispute resolution : the story of a political, cultural, and social movement / Jerome T. Barrett with Joseph P. Barrett.

'Published in affiliation with the Association for Conflict Resolution.'

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-281) and index.

The roots of ADR : the stone to the European law merchant -- Diplomatic ADR : Akhenaton to Woodrow Wilson -- ADR comes to America : the precolonial period to the ten-hour day -- The Civil War : the limits and the promise of ADR -- Commercial and business ADR : the Phoenicians to the American Arbitration Association -- Employee and union struggles : reconstruction to the Coal Wars -- Trains and a world war : pulling ADR into the twentieth century -- Labor-management ADR, 1920-1945 : bust and boom -- After the war : Taft-Hartley to the steel trilogy -- Branching out : ADR in the 1960s -- New rights and new forms : ADR in the 1970s -- Outside the federal realm : new groups pick up the ADR torch -- Crisis and rebirth : labor-management ADR in the 1980s -- The era of win-win : nonlabor ADR becomes a force of its own -- The great expansion : ADR in the 1990s -- ADR and the twenty-first century : threats and hopes.