03781nam 2200709 450 991046347590332120200520144314.00-8014-5587-10-8014-7958-410.7591/9780801455889(CKB)2670000000615490(SSID)ssj0001484025(PQKBManifestationID)12497780(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001484025(PQKBWorkID)11430521(PQKB)10345425(MiAaPQ)EBC3138741(OCoLC)1080549063(MdBmJHUP)muse58591(DE-B1597)496412(OCoLC)908447617(DE-B1597)9780801455889(Au-PeEL)EBL3138741(CaPaEBR)ebr11052041(CaONFJC)MIL782775(EXLCZ)99267000000061549020141106d2015 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe origins of right to work antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago /Cedric de LeonIthaca :ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,2015.1 online resource (185 pages) illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-5308-9 0-8014-5588-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Tracing the origins of the right to work -- The critique of wage dependency, 1828-1844 -- The political crisis over slavery and the rise of free labor, 1844-1860 -- The war years, or, The triumphs and reversals of free labor ideology, 1861-1865 -- Anti-labor democracy and the working class, 1865-1887 -- Epilogue : neoliberalism in the rustbelt."Right to work" states weaken collective bargaining rights and limit the ability of unions to effectively advocate on behalf of workers. As more and more states consider enacting right-to-work laws, observers trace the contemporary attack on organized labor to the 1980s and the Reagan era. In The Origins of Right to Work, however, Cedric de Leon contends that this antagonism began a century earlier with the Northern victory in the U.S. Civil War, when the political establishment revised the English common-law doctrine of conspiracy to equate collective bargaining with the enslavement of free white men. In doing so, de Leon connects past and present, raising critical questions that address pressing social issues. Drawing on the changing relationship between political parties and workers in nineteenth-century Chicago, de Leon concludes that if workers' collective rights are to be preserved in a global economy, workers must chart a course of political independence and overcome long-standing racial and ethnic divisions.Open and closed shopIllinoisChicagoHistory19th centuryLaborIllinoisChicagoHistory19th centuryLabor movementIllinoisChicagoHistory19th centuryWorking classPolitical activityIllinoisChicagoHistory19th centuryPolitical partiesIllinoisChicagoHistory19th centuryChicago (Ill.)Politics and government19th centuryElectronic books.Open and closed shopHistoryLaborHistoryLabor movementHistoryWorking classPolitical activityHistoryPolitical partiesHistory331.88/92097731109034Leon Cedric de1026614MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463475903321The origins of right to work2441614UNINA