05070nam 2200781 a 450 991078124700332120230207231320.00-8014-6162-610.7591/9780801461620(CKB)2550000000036210(OCoLC)732957155(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468059(SSID)ssj0000535036(PQKBManifestationID)11331225(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535036(PQKBWorkID)10518647(PQKB)10321807(MiAaPQ)EBC3138180(MdBmJHUP)muse28803(DE-B1597)535286(OCoLC)1129166953(DE-B1597)9780801461620(Au-PeEL)EBL3138180(CaPaEBR)ebr10468059(OCoLC)922998159(EXLCZ)99255000000003621020070907d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCitizen employers[electronic resource] business communities and labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916 /Jeffrey HayduIthaca ILR Press/Cornell University Press20081 online resource (280 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-4641-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Business unity in Cincinnati -- Race and class alignments in San Francisco -- Business citizenship in Cincinnati -- Practical corporatism in San Francisco -- From politics to work : good citizens and model employers in Cincinnati -- From work to politics : representing class in San Francisco.The exceptional weakness of the American labor movement has often been attributed to the successful resistance of American employers to unionization and collective bargaining. However, the ideology deployed against labor's efforts to organize at the grassroots level has received less attention. In Citizen Employers, Jeffrey Haydu compares the very different employer attitudes and experiences that guided labor-capital relations in two American cities, Cincinnati and San Francisco, in the period between the Civil War and World War I. His account puts these attitudes and experiences into the larger framework of capitalist class formation and businessmen's collective identities. Cincinnati and San Francisco saw dramatically different developments in businessmen's class alignments, civic identities, and approach to unions. In Cincinnati, manufacturing and commercial interests joined together in a variety of civic organizations and business clubs. These organizations helped members overcome their conflicts and identify their interests with the good of the municipal community. That pervasive ideology of "business citizenship" provided much of the rationale for opposing unions. In sharp contrast, San Francisco's businessmen remained divided among themselves, opted to side with white labor against the Chinese, and advocated treating both unions and business organizations as legitimate units of economic and municipal governance. Citizen Employers closely examines the reasons why these two bourgeoisies, located in comparable cities in the same country at the same time, differed so radically in their degree of unity and in their attitudes toward labor unions, and how their views would ultimately converge and harden against labor by the 1920's. With its nuanced depiction of civic ideology and class formation and its application of social movement theory to economic elites, this book offers a new way to look at employer attitudes toward unions and collective bargaining. That new approach, Haydu argues, is equally applicable to understanding challenges facing the American labor movement today.Industrial relationsOhioCincinnatiHistoryIndustrial relationsCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistoryMiddle classOhioCincinnatiHistoryMiddle classCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistorySmall businessOhioCincinnatiHistorySmall businessCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistoryLabor unionsOhioCincinnatiHistoryLabor unionsCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistorySan Francisco (Calif.)Social conditionsCincinnati (Ohio)Social conditionsUnited StatesSocial conditions1865-1918Industrial relationsHistory.Industrial relationsHistory.Middle classHistory.Middle classHistory.Small businessHistory.Small businessHistory.Labor unionsHistory.Labor unionsHistory.331.09771/7809034Haydu Jeffrey119346MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781247003321Citizen employers3731591UNINA