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The Origins of Right to Work : Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago /
"Right to Work states weaken collective bargaining rights and limit the ability of unions to effectively advocate on behalf of workers. As more and more states consider enacting right-to-work laws, observers trace the contemporary attack on organized labor to the 1980s and the Reagan era. In Th...
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Ithaca :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Tracing the origins of the right to work
- The critique of wage dependency, 1828-1844
- The political crisis over slavery and the rise of free labor, 1844-1860
- The war years, or, The triumphs and reversals of free labor ideology, 1861-1865
- Anti-labor democracy and the working class, 1865-1887
- Epilogue : neoliberalism in the rustbelt.