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The right and labor in America : politics, ideology, and imagination
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812223606
- ISBN: 0812244141
- ISBN: 0812223608
- ISBN: 9780812207910
- ISBN: 0812207912
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 422 pages)
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Computer data. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:july.24 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
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