Preface.

List of Acronyms.

ADR Timeline.

1. The Roots of ADR: The Deciding Stone to the European Law Merchant.

2. Diplomatic ADR: Akhenaton to Woodrow Wilson.

3. ADR Comes to America: The Precolonial Period to the Ten-Hour Day.

4. The Civil War: The Limits and the Promise of ADR.

5. Commercial and Business ADR: The Phoenicians to the American Arbitration Association.

6. Employee and Union Struggles: Reconstruction to the Coal Wars.

7. Trains and a World War: Pulling ADR into the Twentieth Century.

8. Labor-Management ADR, 1920–1945: Bust and Boom.

9. After the War: Taft-Hartley to the Steel Trilogy.

10. Branching Out: ADR in the 1960s.

11. New Rights and New Forms: ADR in the 1970s.

12. Outside the Federal Realm: New Groups Pick Up the ADR Torch.

13. Crisis and Rebirth: Labor-Management ADR in the 1980s.

14. The Era of Win-Win: Nonlabor ADR Becomes a Force of Its Own.

15. The Great Expansion: ADR in the 1990s.

16. ADR and the Twenty-First Century: Threats and Hopes.

Bibliography.

About the Authors.

Index.