TY - BOOK AU - de Leon,Cedric TI - The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago SN - 9780801455889 AV - HD6488 U1 - 331.88 PY - 2015/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Open and closed shop -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century KW - Labor -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century KW - Labor movement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century KW - Working class -- Political activity -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century KW - Political parties -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century KW - Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century KW - Electronic books N1 - The Origins Of Right To Work -- 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 N2 - Cedric de Leon traces the antagonism between pro-business politicians and labor to the Northern victory in the U.S. Civil War, when the political establishment equated collective bargaining with the enslavement of free white men UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138741 ER -