Gender and work : a comparative analysis of industrial societies

of these and other changes must await publication of the next cumulative supplement in 1986. There is surely no other body of federal law so subjected to doctrinal change and so lacking in the stability needed by the private sector to guide its actions on the basis of the requirements of law. As Cardozo wrote, "Law as a guide to conduct is reduced to the level of mere futility if it is unknown and unknowable" (The Growth of the Law, 1924, p. 3). Even though many aspects of the law are still uncertain, attempting to understand it would nonetheless be a great deal more frustrating without The Developilg Labor Law.