Labor Visions and State Power : : The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States / / Victoria C. Hattam.

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• VerfasserIn: Hattam, Victoria C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 141
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE. Labor, Ideology, and the State: Working-Class Formation in the United States -- CHAPTER TWO. Judicial Regulation of Labor: The Common Law Doctrine of Criminal Conspiracy, 1806-1896 -- CHAPTER THREE. The Producers' Vision: A Republican Political Economy -- CHAPTER FOUR. Disintegration of the Producers' Alliance and Politicization of Judicial Regulation, 1865-1896 -- CHAPTER FIVE. The United States in Comparative Perspective: English Labor and the Courts -- CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion: Ideas, Interests, and the Concept of Class -- APPENDIX A: American Labor Conspiracy Cases -- APPENDIX B: Additional Cases -- Bibliography -- Index