Against labor : how U.S. employers organized to defeat union activism /

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Against labor highlights the amazingly successful efforts by employers to control workers while simultaneously shaping themselves into a new class. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of companies that aggres...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Feurer, Rosemary (Editor), Pearson, Chad (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Working class in American history.
Subjects:
Labor > United States > History.
Industrial relations > United States > History.
Labor unions > Organizing > United States > History.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
Relations industrielles > États-Unis > Histoire.
Syndicalisation > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Industrial relations.
Labor.
Labor unions > Organizing.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Scientific management, racist science, and race management / Elizabeth Esch and David Roediger
  • "Free shops for free men"? The challenges of strikebreaking and union-busting in the Progressive era / Chad Pearson
  • Employers' path to the open shop in Detroit, 1903-7 / Thomas A. King
  • Race, unionism, and the open-shop movement along the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama / Robert H. Woodrum
  • Through a glass, darkly : the NLRB, employer counteroffensives, investigative committees, and the CIO / Dolores E. Janiewski
  • The strange career of A.A Ahner : reconsidering blackjacks and briefcases / Rosemary Feurer
  • A moderate employers' association in a "house divided" : the case of the employing printers of Columbus, Ohio, 1887-1987 / Howard R. Stanger
  • Litigating for profit : business, law, and labor in the new economy south / Michael Dennis
  • Capital and labor in the 21st century : the end of history? / Peter Rachleff.

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