TY  - GEN
T1  - The Bosses' Union
A1  - Hulden, Vilja
LA  - eng
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-114199
AB  - At the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Union organization and collective bargaining briefly looked like a promising avenue to stability. But both employers and many middle-class observers remained wary of unions exercising independent power. Vilja Hulden reveals how this tension provided the opening for pro-business organizations to shift public attention from concerns about inequality and dangerous working conditions to a belief that unions trampled on an individual's right to work. Inventing the term closed shop, employers mounted what they called an open-shop campaign to undermine union demands that workers at unionized workplaces join the union. Employer organizations lobbied Congress to resist labor's proposals as tyrannical, brought court cases to taint labor's tactics as illegal, and influenced newspaper coverage of unions. While employers were not a monolith nor all-powerful, they generally agreed that unions were a nuisance. Employers successfully leveraged money and connections to create perceptions of organized labor that still echo in our discussions of worker rights.
SN  - 9780252044977
SN  - 9780252044830
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Labor & Employment Relations
KW  - History
KW  - American Studies
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, health & safety::KNXB Industrial relations::KNXB3 Industrial arbitration & negotiation
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
KW  - thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
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