03784nam 22005893 450 991083833220332120231114174430.09780252053887(electronic bk.)9780252086922(MiAaPQ)EBC30203964(Au-PeEL)EBL30203964(OCoLC)1373985377(BIP)083457093(EXLCZ)992628533160004120230322d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe bosses' union how employers organized to fight labor before the New Deal /Vilja Hulden1st ed.Urbana :University of Illinois Press,[2023]©2023.1 online resource (407 pages)The working class in American historyPrint version: Hulden, Vilja The Bosses' Union Champaign : University of Illinois Press,c2023 9780252086922 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Who Makes the Rules? -- 1. The Invention of the Closed Shop: The NAM Weighs In on the Labor Question -- 2. The Deep History of the Closed or Union Shop -- 3. The Potential and Limitations of the Trade Agreement -- 4. The Range and Roots of Employer Positions on Labor -- 5. Employers, Unite? The Bases and Challenges of Employer Collective Action -- 6. The Battle over the State -- 7. The Battle over Public Opinion -- 8. Defending the Status Quo Ante Bellum -- 9. The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Institutionalizing the Open-Shop Ideal in the 1920s -- Coda: The Working Class and the Prerequites of Power"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 HistoryLabor unionsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLabor unionsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryOpen and closed shopUnited StatesHistory20th centuryOpen and closed shopUnited StatesHistory19th centuryIndustrial relationsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryIndustrial relationsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLabor unionsHistoryLabor unionsHistoryOpen and closed shopHistoryOpen and closed shopHistoryIndustrial relationsHistoryIndustrial relationsHistory331.880973Hulden Vilja1977-1347468MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQCaOTUIRN9910838332203321The Bosses' Union3083763UNINA