Working Class in American History: Against Labor (ePub)

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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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Against Labor / Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson
1. Scientific Management, Racist Science, and Race Management / Elizabeth Esch and David Roediger
2. "Free Shops for Free Men"? : The Challenges of Strikebreaking and Union-Busting in the Progressive Era / Chad Pearson
3. Employers' Path to the Open Shop in Detroit, 1903–7 / Thomas A. Klug
4. Race, Unionism, and the Open-Shop Movement along the Waterfront in Mobile, Alabama / Robert H. Woodrum
5. Through a Glass, Darkly: The NLRB, Employer Counteroffensives, Investigative Committees, and the CIO / Dolores E. Janiewski
6. The Strange Career of A. A. Ahner: Reconsidering Blackjacks and Briefcases / Rosemary Feurer
7. A Moderate Employers' Association in a "House Divided": The Case of the Employing Printers of Columbus, Ohio, 1887 - 1987 / Howard R. Stanger
8. Litigating for Profit: Business, Law, and Labor in the New Economy South / Michael Dennis
9. Capital and Labor in the 21st Century: The End of History? / Peter Rachleff
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Contributors
Index|Rosemary Feurer is an associate professor of history at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950. Chad Pearson teaches history at Collin College. He is the author of Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement.