{"product_id":"the-right-and-labor-in-america-politics-ideology-and-imagination-paperback-softback-9780812223606","title":"The Right and Labor in America; Politics, Ideology, and Imagination (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812223606","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Right and Labor in America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitics, Ideology, and Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNelson Lichtenstein (Edited by), Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812223606\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 April 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e440 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.742 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Analyzing the place of organized labor in the history of American conservatism, \u003ci\u003eThe Right and Labor in America\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that the antiunion conviction that recently buried the 2009 Employee Free Choice Act and laid siege to public-employee unions has been present in American conservatism since corporate capitalism emerged.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e) \"This volume makes a major contribution to a growing body of work on the origins of modern conservatism and the rise of the New Right. It vividly demonstrates that if antiunionism did not assume the same significance as antitaxation or Christian fundamentalism, it proved to be significant in its own right. Future scholars will have to pay heed.\" (Bruce Laurie, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe legislative attack on public sector unionism that gave rise to the uproar in Wisconsin and other union strongholds in 2011 was not just a reaction to the contemporary economic difficulties faced by the government. Rather, it was the result of a longstanding political and ideological hostility to the very idea of trade unionism put forward by a conservative movement whose roots go as far back as the Haymarket Riot of 1886. The controversy in Madison and other state capitals reveals that labor's status and power has always been at the core of American conservatism, today as well as a century ago.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Right and Labor in America\u003c\/i\u003e explores the multifaceted history and range of conservative hostility toward unionism, opening the door to a fascinating set of individuals, movements, and institutions that help explain why, in much of the popular imagination, union leaders are always \"bosses\" and trade union organizers are nothing short of \"thugs.\" The contributors to this volume explore conservative thought about unions, in particular the ideological impulses, rhetorical strategies, and political efforts that conservatives have deployed to challenge unions as a force in U.S. economic and political life over the century. Among the many contemporary books on American parties, personalities, and elections that try to explain why political disputes are so divisive, this collection of original and innovative essays is essential reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries\u003cbr\u003e -Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer\u003cbr\u003e I. THE CONSERVATIVE SEARCH FOR SOCIAL HARMONY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Unions, Modernity, and the Decline of American Economic Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e -Andrew Wender Cohen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The American Legion and Striking Workers During the Interwar Period\u003cbr\u003e -Christopher Nehls\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations\u003cbr\u003e -Chris Nyland and Kyle Bruce\u003cbr\u003e II. REGION, RACE, AND RESISTANCE TO ORGANIZED LABOR\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Capital Flight, \"States' Rights,\" and the Anti-Labor Offensive After World War II\u003cbr\u003e -Tami J. Friedman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Orval Faubus and the Rise of Anti-Labor Populism in Northwestern Arkansas\u003cbr\u003e -Michael Pierce\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"Is Freedom of the Individual Un-American?\" Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943−1958\u003cbr\u003e -Elizabeth Tandy Shermer\u003cbr\u003e III. APPROPRIATING THE LANGUAGE OF CIVIL RIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Singing \"The Right-to-Work Blues\": The Politics of Race in the Campaign for \"Voluntary Unionism\" in Postwar California\u003cbr\u003e -Reuel Sc hiller\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Whose Rights? Litigating the Right to Work, 1940-1980\u003cbr\u003e -Sophia Z. Lee\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. \"Such Power Spells Tyranny\": Business Opposition to Administrative Governance and the Transformation of Fair Employment Policy in Illinois, 1945−1964\u003cbr\u003e -Alexander Gourse\u003cbr\u003e IV. THE SPECTER OF UNION POWER AND CORRUPTION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Pattern for Partnership: Putting Labor Racketeering on the Nation's Agenda in the Late 1950s\u003cbr\u003e -David Witwer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. \"Compulsory Unionism\": Sylvester Petro and the Career of an Anti-Union Idea, 1957−1987\u003cbr\u003e -Joseph McCartin and Jean-Christian Vinel\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Wal-Mart, John Tate, and Their Anti-Union America\u003cbr\u003e -Nelson Lichtenstein\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. \"All Deals Are Off\": The Dunlop Commission and Employer Opposition to Labor Law Reform\u003cbr\u003e -John Logan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. Is Democracy in the Cards? A Democratic Defense of the Employee Free Choice Act\u003cbr\u003e -Susan Orr\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555690967320,"sku":"9780812223606","price":30.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-right-and-labor-in-america-politics-ideology-and-imagination-paperback-softback-9780812223606","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}