The Bosses' Union
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1141992024-03-29T13:44:40Z The Bosses' Union Hulden, Vilja Political Science Labor & Employment Relations History American Studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government 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 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government 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 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas 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. 2023-10-05T10:00:18Z 2023-10-05T10:00:18Z 2023 book ONIX_20231005_9780252044977_2 9780252044977 9780252044830 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/114199 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctv35chj7s University of Illinois Press 10.5406/j.ctv35chj7s 10.5406/j.ctv35chj7s 8c222c2b-fc7a-4b3c-8751-e700b64588c9 9780252044977 9780252044830 open access |
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