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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2023]
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Series: | Working class in American history.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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