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Reform or Repression - Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement (Hardcover)
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Reform or Repression - Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement (Hardcover)
Series: American Business, Politics, and Society
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Historians have characterized the open-shop movement of the early
twentieth century as a cynical attempt by business to undercut the
labor movement by twisting the American ideals of independence and
self-sufficiency to their own ends. The precursors to today's
right-to-work movement, advocates of the open shop in the
Progressive Era argued that honest workers should have the right to
choose whether or not to join a union free from all pressure. At
the same time, business owners systematically prevented
unionization in their workplaces. While most scholars portray union
opponents as knee-jerk conservatives, Chad Pearson demonstrates
that many open-shop proponents identified themselves as progressive
reformers and benevolent guardians of America's economic and
political institutions. By exploring the ways in which employers
and their allies in journalism, law, politics, and religion drew
attention to the reformist, rather than repressive, character of
the open-shop movement, Pearson's book forces us to consider the
origins, character, and limitations of this movement in new ways.
Throughout his study, Pearson describes class tensions, noting that
open-shop campaigns primarily benefited management and the nation's
most economically privileged members at the expense of ordinary
people. Pearson's analysis of archives, trade journals, newspapers,
speeches, and other primary sources elucidates the mentalities of
his subjects and their times, rediscovering forgotten leaders and
offering fresh perspectives on well-known figures such as Theodore
Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis, Booker T. Washington and George Creel.
Reform or Repression sheds light on businessmen who viewed strong
urban-based employers' and citizens' associations, weak unions, and
managerial benevolence as the key to their own, as well as the
nation's, progress and prosperity.
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