Against labor
Subtitle: how U.S. employers organized to defeat union activism
By: edited by Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson
Series: The working class in American history; Working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780252040818; 9780252082320
Subjects: Industrial relations; Labor; Organizing; Labor unions; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: against labor  -- Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson; title: Scientific management, racist science, and race management  -- Elizabeth Esch and David Roediger; title: "Free shops for free men"? The challenges of strikebreaking and union-busting in the Progressive era  -- Chad Pearson; title: Employers' path to the open shop in Detroit, 1903-7  -- Thomas A. King; title: Race, unionism, and the open-shop movement along the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama  -- Robert H. Woodrum; title: Through a glass, darkly : the NLRB, employer counteroffensives, investigative committees, and the CIO  -- Dolores E. Janiewski; title: The strange career of A.A Ahner : reconsidering blackjacks and briefcases  -- Rosemary Feurer; title: A moderate employers' association in a "house divided" : the case of the employing printers of Columbus, Ohio, 1887-1987  -- Howard R. Stanger; title: Litigating for profit : business, law, and labor in the new economy south  -- Michael Dennis; title: Capital and labor in the 21st century : the end of history? -- Peter Rachleff.