Against Labor
How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
1st Edition
Published on 21. March 2017
288 pages
978-0-252-09931-1 (ISBN)
Description
Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as the intersection of race and ethnicity with anti-labor activity, and anti-unionism in the context of neoliberalism. Timely and revealing, Against Labor deepens our understanding of management history and employer activism and their metamorphic effects on workplace and society. Contributors: Michael Dennis, Elizabeth Esch, Rosemary Feurer, Dolores E. Janiewski, Thomas A. Klug, Chad Pearson, Peter Rachleff, David Roediger, Howard Stanger, and Robert Woodrum.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Against Labor
- 1 Scientific Management, Racist Science, and Race Management
- 2 "Free Shops for Free Men"? The Challenges of Strikebreaking and Union-Busting in the Progressive Era
- 3 Employers' Path to the Open Shop in Detroit, 1903-7
- 4 Race, Unionism, and the Open-Shop Movement along the Waterfront in Mobile, Alabama
- 5 Through a Glass, Darkly: The NLRB, Employer Counteroffensives, Investigative Committees, and the CIO
- 6 The Strange Career of A. A. Ahner: Reconsidering Blackjacks and Briefcases
- 7 A Moderate Employers' Association in a "House Divided": The Case of the Employing Printers of Columbus, Ohio, 1887-1987
- 8 Litigating for Profit: Business, Law, and Labor in the New Economy South
- 9 Capital and Labor in the 21st Century: The End of History?
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
