{"product_id":"origins-of-right-to-work","title":"Origins of Right to Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Right to work\" states weaken collective bargaining rights and limit the ability of unions to effectively advocate on behalf of workers.\u003c\/b\u003e As more and more states consider enacting right-to-work laws, observers trace the contemporary attack on organized labor to the 1980s and the Reagan era. In \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Right to Work\u003c\/i\u003e, however, Cedric de Leon contends that this antagonism began a century earlier with the northern victory in the U.S. Civil War, when the political establishment revised the English common-law doctrine of conspiracy to equate collective bargaining with the enslavement of free white men. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn doing so, de Leon connects past and present, raising critical questions that address pressing social issues. Drawing on the changing relationship between political parties and workers in nineteenth-century Chicago, de Leon concludes that if workers' collective rights are to be preserved in a global economy, workers must chart a course of political independence and overcome long-standing racial and ethnic divisions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231888658776,"sku":"9780801453083","price":128.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780801453083_ee32c690-b0a5-408c-a51a-2f9903b1ec7b.jpg?v=1779508858","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/origins-of-right-to-work","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}