The Origins of Right to Work : : Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Leon, Cedric,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 2 halftones, 4 line figures, 5 tables, 1 chart
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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