The Origins of Right to Work : : Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago / / Cedric Leon.
"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....
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Leon, Cedric, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Origins of Right to Work : Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago / Cedric Leon. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (184 p.) : 2 halftones, 4 line figures, 5 tables, 1 chart text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Tracing the Origins of Right to Work -- 2. The Critique of Wage Dependency, 1828-1844 -- 3. The Political Crisis over Slavery and the Rise of Free Labor, 1844-1860 -- 4. The War Years, or the Triumphs and Reversals of Free Labor Ideology, 1861-1865 -- 5. Antilabor Democracy and the Working Class, 1865-1887 -- Epilogue. Neoliberalism in the Rustbelt -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "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 The Origins of Right to Work, however, Cedric de Leon contends that this antagonism began a century earlier with the Northern victory in the U.S. Civil War, when the political establishment revised the English common-law doctrine of conspiracy to equate collective bargaining with the enslavement of free white men. In doing so, de Leon connects past and present, raising critical questions that address pressing social issues. Drawing on the changing relationship between political parties and workers in nineteenth-century Chicago, de Leon concludes that if workers' collective rights are to be preserved in a global economy, workers must chart a course of political independence and overcome long-standing racial and ethnic divisions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Labor movement Illinois Chicago History 19th century. Labor Illinois Chicago History 19th century. Open and closed shop Illinois Chicago History 19th century. Working class Political activity Illinois Chicago History. Labor History. U.S. History. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 print 9780801479588 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801455889 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801455889 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801455889/original |
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