LEADER 03781nam 2200709 450 001 9910463475903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5587-1 010 $a0-8014-7958-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801455889 035 $a(CKB)2670000000615490 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001484025 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12497780 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001484025 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11430521 035 $a(PQKB)10345425 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138741 035 $a(OCoLC)1080549063 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58591 035 $a(DE-B1597)496412 035 $a(OCoLC)908447617 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801455889 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138741 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11052041 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL782775 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000615490 100 $a20141106d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe origins of right to work $eantilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago /$fCedric de Leon 210 1$aIthaca :$cILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (185 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-5308-9 311 $a0-8014-5588-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTracing 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $aOpen and closed shop$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLabor$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLabor movement$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWorking class$xPolitical activity$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPolitical parties$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aChicago (Ill.)$xPolitics and government$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOpen and closed shop$xHistory 615 0$aLabor$xHistory 615 0$aLabor movement$xHistory 615 0$aWorking class$xPolitical activity$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical parties$xHistory 676 $a331.88/92097731109034 700 $aLeon$b Cedric de$01026614 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463475903321 996 $aThe origins of right to work$92441614 997 $aUNINA