This volume offers the first comprehensive history of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution is a compelling and fascinating book that chronicles the revolutionary initiatives, the groundbreaking success, frustrating failures, and evolution of ADR theory and techniques. Reviewing the various types of peaceful practices for resolving conflicts, this volume traces the evolution of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process and offers an overview of the precursors to ADR. It explores the colorful beginnings of ADR and offers the historical context for the use of ADR in the arenas of diplomacy and business. Foreword ix William J. Usery Preface xiii List of Acronyms xxi ADR Timeline xxv 1. The Roots of ADR: The Deciding Stone to the European Law Merchant 1(18) 2. Diplomatic ADR: Akhenaton to Woodrow Wilson 19(22) 3. ADR Comes to America: The Precolonial Period to the Ten-Hour Day 41(14) 4. The Civil War: The Limits and the Promise of ADR 55(14) 5. Commercial and Business ADR: The Phoenicians to the American Arbitration Association 69(16) 6. Employee and Union Struggles: Reconstruction to the Coal Wars 85(12) 7. Trains and a World War: Pulling ADR into the Twentieth Century 97(14) 8. Labor-Management ADR, 1920-1945: Bust and Boom 111(14) 9. After the War: Taft-Hartley to the Steel Trilogy 125(16) 10. Branching Out: ADR in the 1960's 141(18) 11. New Rights and New Forms: ADR in the 1970's 159(18) 12. Outside the Federal Realm: New Groups Pick Up the ADR Torch 177(14) 13. Crisis and Rebirth: Labor-Management ADR in the 1980's 191(18) 14. The Era of Win-Win: Nonlabor ADR Becomes a Force of Its Own 209(30) 15. The Great Expansion: ADR in the 1990's 239(20) 16. ADR and the Twenty-First Century: Threats and Hopes 259(12) Bibliography 271(12) About the Authors 283(2) Index 285