Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Against labor : how U.S. employers organized to defeat union activism / edited by Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson

Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Physical Description
x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
Feurer, Rosemary and Pearson, Chad

Availability

Browse Nearby on Shelf
I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Series
Contents
Introduction: against labor / Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson -- Scientific management, racist science, and race management / Elizabeth Esch and David Roediger -- "Free shops for free men"? The challenges of strikebreaking and union-busting in the Progressive era / Chad Pearson -- Employers' path to the open shop in Detroit, 1903-7 / Thomas A. King -- Race, unionism, and the open-shop movement along the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama / Robert H. Woodrum -- Through a glass, darkly : the NLRB, employer counteroffensives, investigative committees, and the CIO / Dolores E. Janiewski -- The strange career of A.A Ahner : reconsidering blackjacks and briefcases / Rosemary Feurer -- A moderate employers' association in a "house divided" : the case of the employing printers of Columbus, Ohio, 1887-1987 / Howard R. Stanger -- Litigating for profit : business, law, and labor in the new economy south / Michael Dennis -- Capital and labor in the 21st century : the end of history? / Peter Rachleff.
Summary
Against labor highlights the amazingly successful efforts by employers to control workers while simultaneously shaping themselves into a new class. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of companies that aggressively opposed unionization. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as the intersection of race and ethnicity with anti-labor activity, and anti-unionism in the context of neoliberalism. A timely and revealing collection, Against labor deepens our understanding of management history and employer activism and their metamorphic effects on the American workplace. --Cover.
Subject(s)
Genre(s)
ISBN
9780252040818 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0252040813 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780252082320 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
025208232X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 20062194