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The origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago /

"Right to Work states weaken collective bargaining rights and limit the ability of unions to effectively advocate on behalf of workers. As more and more states consider enacting right-to-work laws, observers trace the contemporary attack on organized labor to the 1980s and the Reagan era. In Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leon, Cedric de (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tracing the origins of the right to work
  • The critique of wage dependency, 1828-1844
  • The political crisis over slavery and the rise of free labor, 1844-1860
  • The war years, or, The triumphs and reversals of free labor ideology, 1861-1865
  • Anti-labor democracy and the working class, 1865-1887
  • Epilogue : neoliberalism in the rustbelt.