• Creative efforts to develop mediation emerge in response to labor/management disputes
  
• 1898 - Congress authorizes mediation for collective bargaining disputes
  
• Mediation seen as an alternative to strikes when negotiations failed
  
• Not originally seen as an alternative to adjudication
  

• American Bar Association considers mediation as cost effective
  
• Varied forms of mediation for non-labor matters are introduced into the courts
  

• Mediation addressed in divorce situation because of concern about rising divorce rates
  

• Privately funded mediation efforts abound
  
• United States Justice Department institutes a mediation program for civil rights disputes
  
• Chief Justice Warren E. Burger takes positive stand on mediation as a diversion process
  

• Growth and expansion of mediation programs, particularly in community dispute situations
  
• Growth of divorce and workplace mediations
  

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