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Record Nr.

UNINA9910637740003321

Autore

Hulden Vilja <1977->

Titolo

The bosses' union : how employers organized to fight labor before the New Deal / / Vilja Hulden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

0-252-04497-5

0-252-05388-5

9780252053887

9780252044830

9780252086922

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 330 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

viii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps; ; 24cm

Collana

The working class in American history

Disciplina

331.880973

Soggetti

Industrial relations - United States - History - 19th century

Open and closed shop - United States - History - 19th century

Labor unions - United States - History - 19th century

Labor unions - United States - History - 20th century

Open and closed shop - United States - History - 20th century

Industrial relations - United States - History - 20th century

Open and closed shop

Labor unions

Industrial relations

History

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Sommario/riassunto

"From the 1880s through the 1920s, American labor endured an ongoing assault on worker's rights by open shop campaigns organized by employers. Vilja Hulden delves into the decades-long effort to not only counter but discredit labor's attempts to exercise its own power.



The employer-invented term closed shop was a potent rhetorical tool that shifted public opinion from concerns about inequality and dangerous working conditions to a belief that unions trampled an individual's right to work. As Hulden shows, employers used different methods to conduct closed-shop campaigns. Conciliators assumed a pose of benevolent cooperation while hardliners like the National Association of Manufacturers condemned the closed shop and used financial and social networks to lobby government, purchase newspaper space, and place sympathizers in politics. Employers did not always get what they wanted. But their superior ability to exercise power strengthened an anti-labor agenda that showed a remarkable consistency in its tactics and goals over a fifty-year period"--