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Union-free America : workers and antiunion culture /
"This book confronts one of the most vexing questions for labor activists and labor academics: why is there so much opposition to organized labor in the United States? Lawrence Richards provides a provocative explanation for this hostility: a pervasive strain of antiunionism in American culture...
| Clasificación: | HD6508 R5.23 |
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana, Illinois :
University of Illinois Press,
[2008].
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| Colección: | Working class in American history.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Workers' role in postwar union decline.
- Part 1: America's antiunion culture.
- 1. The union image in the age of industrialization.
- 2. The postwar offensive against organized labor.
- 3. The postwar boom and organized labor's lost legitimacy.
- Part II. Antiunion culture a work.
- 4. Union outsiders versus the Ix family : blue-collar workers and unions in the late twentieth century.
- 5. Antiunionism in the citadel of organized labor : organizing clerical workers at New York University.
- 6. The union that wasn't : organizing white-collar professionals.