The Right and Labor in America : : Politics, Ideology, and Imagination / / ed. by Nelson Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bruce, Kyle,; Cohen, Andrew Wender,; Friedman, Tami J.,; Gourse, Alexander,; Lee, Sophia Z.,; Lichtenstein, Nelson,; Logan, John,; McCartin, Joseph A.,; Nehls, Christopher,; Nyland, Chris,; Orr, Susan,; Pierce, Michael,; Schiller, Reuel,; Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy,; Vinel, Jean-Christian,; Witwer, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Lichtenstein, Nelson,; Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)

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Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
• Part I. The Conservative Search for Social Harmony
• Chapter 1: Unions, Modernity, and the Decline of American Economic Nationalism
• Chapter 2. The American Legion and Striking Workers During the Interwar Period
• Chapter 3. Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations
• Part II. Region, Race, and Resistance to Organized Labor
• Chapter 4. Capital Flight, '"States' Rights," and the Anti-Labor Offensive After World War II
• Chapter 5. Orval Faubus and the Rise of Anti-Labor Populism in Northwestern Arkansas
• Chapter 6. "Is Freedom of the Individual Un-American?" Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943-1958
• 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
• Chapter 8. Whose Rights? Litigating the Right to Work, 1940-1980
• Chapter 9. "Such Power Spells Tyranny": Business Opposition to Administrative Governance and the Transformation of Fair Employment Policy in Illinois, 1945-1964
• 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
• Chapter 11. "Compulsory Unionism": Sylvester Petro and the Career of an Anti-Union Idea, 1957-1987
• Chapter 12. Wal-Mart, John Tate, and Their Anti-Union America
• Chapter 13. "All Deals Are Off": The Dunlop Commission and Employer Opposition to Labor Law Reform
• Chapter 14. Is Democracy in the Cards? A Democratic Defense of the Employee Free Choice Act
• Notes
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments