Understanding Architecture
1st Edition
Published on 26. July 2004
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-7656-8071-6 (ISBN)
Description
This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this history which show that "liberty of contract" and "inalienable rights" form two contradictory traditions concerning freedom.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Armonk
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 12 to 17 years
Illustrations
illustrations (some colour)
Weight
1021 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7656-8071-6 (9780765680716)
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Content
This text offers interpretation of American labor history that makes workers' unquenchable thirst for freedom its central theme. In doing so, it breaks free from standard treatises in which the issues of class conflict and American "exceptionalism" have been dominant. This interdisciplinary narrative fleshes out the conditions under which workers have lived and labored. The author contends that labor protests against these conditions flow from an American tradition invoking the primacy of inalienable rights and that these protests clash with the equally American traditions asserting a nearly absolute liberty of individual contract.