This book explores how and why nations with shared characteristics nevertheless developed strikingly different answers to "the labour question."

1. Answers to the Labour Question
2. Why the Anglophone Nations Diverged
3. How the Regimes Emerged
4. The Statist Answer: Australasia
5. The Voluntarist Answer: Great Britain
6. Elusive Answers: The United States before the 1930s
7. The Legalist Answer: The United States
8. Limited Statism: Canada’s First Answer
9. Canada Capitulates to Legalism
10. Conclusions

Appendix
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Gary Mucciaroni is a professor of political science and director of Master of Public Policy Program at Temple University.