Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism (Working Class in American History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252040813 ISBN 13: 9780252040818

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252040813
• ISBN 13: 9780252040818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Feurer Rosemary, Pearson Chad