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Vilja Hulden
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American Federation of Labor
Anti-radicalism
Anti-socialism
Anti-unionism
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Closed shop
Collective action
Company unions
Courts
Craft unions
Democracy
Employer organizations
Employer solidarity
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Governance
Grassroots organizations
Industrial Workers of the World
Injunctions
International Typographical Union
Labor militancy
Labor press
Labor question
Liberty of contract
Middle-class reformers
National Association of Manufacturers
National Civic Federation
National Industrial Conference Board
Newspapers
Open-shop campaign
Personnel management
President's Industrial Conference
President’s Industrial Conference
Printers' strike of 1905-06
Progressive Era
Progressives
Publicity
Ralph Easley
Self-government
Social network analysis
Trade agreement
Typothetae
United States Industrial Commission
World War I

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252044830
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Jan 2023
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.
About Vilja Hulden
Vilja Hulden is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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