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Rights Delayed - The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950 (Hardcover)
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Rights Delayed - The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950 (Hardcover)
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Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside
federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet in 1950, few
progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic
anti-communism and southern conservatives in Congress as the forces
that diminished the New Deal state, eliminated progressive unions,
and destroyed the radical potential of American liberalism. Rights
Delayed: The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions
argues that anti-communism and Congressional conservatism merely
intensified the main reason for the decline of progressive unions:
the New Deal state's focus on legal procedure. Initially,
progressive unions thrived by embracing the procedural culture of
New Deal agencies and the wartime American state. Between 1935 and
1945, unions mastered the complex rules of the NLRB and other
federal entities by working with government officials. In 1946 and
1947, however, the emphasis on legal procedure made the federal
state too slow to combat potentially illegal cooperation between
employers and the Teamsters. Workers who supported progressive
unions rallied around procedural language to stop what they
considered Teamster collusion, but found themselves dependent on an
ineffective federal state. The state became even less able to
protect employees belonging to left-led unions after the
Taft-Hartley Act's anti-communist provisions-and decisions by union
leaders-limited access to the NLRB's procedures. From 1946 until
1950, progressive unions withered and eventually disappeared from
the Pacific canneries as the unions failed to pay the cost of legal
representation before the NLRB. Workers supporting progressive
unions had embraced procedural language to claim their rights, but
by 1950, those workers discovered that their rights had vanished in
an endless legal discourse.
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