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Reform or repression : organizing America's anti-union movement / / Chad Pearson



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Autore: Pearson Chad Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reform or repression : organizing America's anti-union movement / / Chad Pearson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
Disciplina: 331.88/92097309041
Soggetto topico: Open and closed shop - United States - History - 20th century
Labor unions - United States - History - 20th century
Employers' associations - United States - History - 20th century
Industrial relations - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Reformers and Fighters: Employers and the Labor Problem -- Chapter 1. Fighting ‘‘Union Dictation’’: Birth of the Open-Shop Movement -- Chapter 2. ‘‘For the Protection of the Common People’’: Citizens, Progressives, and ‘‘Free Workers’’ -- Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Men: Class Traitors and Strikebreaking in Cleveland -- Chapter 4. Avenging McKinley: Organized Employers in Buffalo -- Chapter 5. Making the ‘‘City of Prosperity’’: The Poetry of Industrial Harmony in Worcester -- Chapter 6. ‘‘A Solid South for the Open Shop’’: N. F. Thompson and the Labor Solution -- Conclusion. Creating the ‘‘Common Good’’: Individual Rights, Industrial Progress, and Virtuous Citizenship -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: Historians have characterized the open-shop movement of the early twentieth century as a cynical attempt by business to undercut the labor movement by twisting the American ideals of independence and self-sufficiency to their own ends. The precursors to today's right-to-work movement, advocates of the open shop in the Progressive Era argued that honest workers should have the right to choose whether or not to join a union free from all pressure. At the same time, business owners systematically prevented unionization in their workplaces. While most scholars portray union opponents as knee-jerk conservatives, Chad Pearson demonstrates that many open-shop proponents identified themselves as progressive reformers and benevolent guardians of America's economic and political institutions. By exploring the ways in which employers and their allies in journalism, law, politics, and religion drew attention to the reformist, rather than repressive, character of the open-shop movement, Pearson's book forces us to consider the origins, character, and limitations of this movement in new ways. Throughout his study, Pearson describes class tensions, noting that open-shop campaigns primarily benefited management and the nation's most economically privileged members at the expense of ordinary people. Pearson's analysis of archives, trade journals, newspapers, speeches, and other primary sources elucidates the mentalities of his subjects and their times, rediscovering forgotten leaders and offering fresh perspectives on well-known figures such as Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis, Booker T. Washington and George Creel. Reform or Repression sheds light on businessmen who viewed strong urban-based employers' and citizens' associations, weak unions, and managerial benevolence as the key to their own, as well as the nation's, progress and prosperity.
Titolo autorizzato: Reform or repression  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8122-9220-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461045803321
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Serie: American business, politics, and society.