03744oam 22007211 450 991063774000332120240125045528.00-252-04497-50-252-05388-59780252053887(ebook)9780252044830(hardcover)9780252086922(paperback)(CKB)25998094600041(OCoLC)1334946850(MdBmJHUP)musev2_103801(EXLCZ)992599809460004120220707h20232023 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamedianrdamediacrrdacarrierncrdacarrierThe bosses' union how employers organized to fight labor before the New Deal /Vilja HuldenUrbana :University of Illinois Press,[2023]©20231 online resource (viii, 330 pages) illustrations (black and white)viii, 330 pages illustrations, maps；24cmThe working class in American history9780252044830 Print version: Hulden, Vilja, 1977- Bosses' union Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023] 9780252044830 (DLC) 2022027156 Includes bibliographical references and index"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"--Provided by publisher.Working class in American history.Industrial relationsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryOpen and closed shopUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLabor unionsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLabor unionsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryOpen and closed shopUnited StatesHistory20th centuryIndustrial relationsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryOpen and closed shopfast(OCoLC)fst01046058Labor unionsfast(OCoLC)fst00990260Industrial relationsfast(OCoLC)fst00971609United StatesfastHistory.Industrial relationsHistoryOpen and closed shopHistoryLabor unionsHistoryLabor unionsHistoryOpen and closed shopHistoryIndustrial relationsHistoryOpen and closed shop.Labor unions.Industrial relations.331.880973Hulden Vilja1977-1347468MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPSCU9910637740003321The Bosses' Union3083763UNINA