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Order Against Chaos - Business Culture and Labor Ideology in America, 1880-1915 (Hardcover, New)
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Order Against Chaos - Business Culture and Labor Ideology in America, 1880-1915 (Hardcover, New)
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Historians now mark the years between 1880 and 1915 as the
beginning of mass culture in the United States and its
consolidation under the ideals and values of private corporations.
In this study, Sarah Lyons Watts contends that modern American
attitudes toward the relationship between labor and capital, as
well toward the place industrial labor was to occupy in the
corporate state, coalesced in the debates in popular, business, and
professional literature in the decades around the turn of the
century. She illustrates how the magnitude and significance of
changes in the transmission of cultural authority made these years
critical in the evolution of industrialists' labor ideas. Following
a detailed introduction that provides an overview of the period and
a discussion of cultural hegemony, Watts focuses on three case
studies: the Pullman strike, an ideological struggle in which
public opinion figured not just in the outcome of the strike, but
in the definition of labor's place in the corporate order; modern
management, which sought to replace workers' traditional
definitions with its own and transform the ethos of modern factory
work; and the National Association of Manufacturers' anti-union
campaign. These case studies demonstrate how nationwide
organizations of businessmen met the charges against concentrated
capital made by unionists and reformers, advancing arguments that
linked the moral value of capital to civic services, national
honor, and progress. A concluding chapter, recounting the dramatic
social reorganization that was the ultimate product of this period,
and a selected bibliography, complete the work. This book will be a
useful reference for courses in American, business, social, and
labor history, as well as an important resource for public and
academic libraries.
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