LEADER 05104nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910456582603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6162-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801461620 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036210 035 $a(OCoLC)732957155 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468059 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535036 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11331225 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535036 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10518647 035 $a(PQKB)10321807 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138180 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28803 035 $a(DE-B1597)535286 035 $a(OCoLC)1129166953 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801461620 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138180 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468059 035 $a(OCoLC)922998159 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036210 100 $a20070907d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCitizen employers$b[electronic resource] $ebusiness communities and labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916 /$fJeffrey Haydu 210 $aIthaca $cILR Press/Cornell University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4641-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBusiness 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aIndustrial relations$zOhio$zCincinnati$xHistory 606 $aIndustrial relations$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory 606 $aMiddle class$zOhio$zCincinnati$xHistory 606 $aMiddle class$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory 606 $aSmall business$zOhio$zCincinnati$xHistory 606 $aSmall business$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory 606 $aLabor unions$zOhio$zCincinnati$xHistory 606 $aLabor unions$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory 607 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xSocial conditions 607 $aCincinnati (Ohio)$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1865-1918 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndustrial relations$xHistory. 615 0$aIndustrial relations$xHistory. 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory. 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory. 615 0$aSmall business$xHistory. 615 0$aSmall business$xHistory. 615 0$aLabor unions$xHistory. 615 0$aLabor unions$xHistory. 676 $a331.09771/7809034 700 $aHaydu$b Jeffrey$0119346 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456582603321 996 $aCitizen employers$92450399 997 $aUNINA