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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hulden, Vilja, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Series:Working class in American history.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Labor unions > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor unions > United States > History > 19th century.
Open and closed shop > United States > History > 20th century.
Open and closed shop > United States > History > 19th century.
Industrial relations > United States > History > 20th century.
Industrial relations > United States > History > 19th century.
Industrial relations.
Labor unions.
Open and closed shop.
Economics.
Industry.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
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

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