The right and labor in America : politics, ideology, and imagination /

This collection of essays by leading American historians explains how and why the fight against unionism has long been central to the meaning of contemporary conservatism.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
©2012
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Labor unions > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor unions > United States > History > 21st century.
Labor disputes > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor disputes > United States > History > 21st century.
Labor policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor policy > United States > History > 21st century.
Conservatism > United States > History > 20th century.
Conservatism > United States > History > 21st century.
Travail > Conflits > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail > Conflits > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Travail > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Conservatisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Conservatisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Conservatism
Labor disputes
Labor policy
Labor unions
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / Lichtenstein, Nelson / Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy
  • Part I. The Conservative Search for Social Harmony
  • Chapter 1: Unions, Modernity, and the Decline of American Economic Nationalism / Cohen, Andrew Wender
  • Chapter 2. The American Legion and Striking Workers During the Interwar Period / Nehls, Christopher
  • Chapter 3. Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations / Nyland, Chris / Bruce, Kyle
  • Part II. Region, Race, and Resistance to Organized Labor
  • Chapter 4. Capital Flight, '"States' Rights," and the Anti-Labor Offensive After World War II / Friedman, Tami J.
  • Chapter 5. Orval Faubus and the Rise of Anti-Labor Populism in Northwestern Arkansas / Pierce, Michael
  • Chapter 6. "Is Freedom of the Individual Un-American?" Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943-1958 / Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy
  • Part III. Appropriating the Language of Civil Rights
  • Chapter 7. Singing "The Right-to-Work Blues": The Politics of Race in the Campaign for "Voluntary Unionism" in Postwar California / Schiller, Reuel
  • Chapter 8. Whose Rights? Litigating the Right to Work, 1940-1980 / Lee, Sophia Z.
  • Chapter 9. "Such Power Spells Tyranny": Business Opposition to Administrative Governance and the Transformation of Fair Employment Policy in Illinois, 1945-1964 / Gourse, Alexander
  • Part IV. The Specter of Union Power and Corruption
  • Chapter 10. Pattern for Partnership: Putting Labor Racketeering on the Nation's Agenda in the Late 1950s / Witwer, David
  • Chapter 11. "Compulsory Unionism": Sylvester Petro and the Career of an Anti-Union Idea, 1957-1987 / McCartin, Joseph A. / Vinel, Jean-Christian
  • Chapter 12. Wal-Mart, John Tate, and Their Anti-Union America / Lichtenstein, Nelson
  • Chapter 13. "All Deals Are Off": The Dunlop Commission and Employer Opposition to Labor Law Reform / Logan, John
  • Chapter 14. Is Democracy in the Cards? A Democratic Defense of the Employee Free Choice Act / Orr, Susan
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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