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

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 struc...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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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