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The Origins of Right to Work : Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (185 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801455889
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Origins of Right to WorkDDC classification:
  • 331.88
LOC classification:
  • HD6488
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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