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The bosses' union : how employers organized to fight labor before the New Deal /

"From the 1880s through the 1920s, American labor endured an ongoing assault on worker's rights by open shop campaigns organized by employers. Vilja Hulden delves into the decades-long effort to not only counter but discredit labor's attempts to exercise its own power. The employer-in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hulden, Vilja, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Colección:Working class in American history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Who Makes the Rules?
  • 1. The Invention of the Closed Shop: The NAM Weighs In on the Labor Question
  • 2. The Deep History of the Closed or Union Shop
  • 3. The Potential and Limitations of the Trade Agreement
  • 4. The Range and Roots of Employer Positions on Labor
  • 5. Employers, Unite? The Bases and Challenges of Employer Collective Action
  • 6. The Battle over the State
  • 7. The Battle over Public Opinion
  • 8. Defending the Status Quo Ante Bellum
  • 9. The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Institutionalizing the Open-Shop Ideal in the 1920s
  • Coda: The Working Class and the Prerequisites of Power