Citizen Employers : : Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916 / / Jeffrey Haydu.
The exceptional weakness of the American labor movement has often been attributed to the successful resistance of American employers to unionization and collective bargaining. However, the ideology deployed against labor's efforts to organize at the grassroots level has received less attention....
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