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The Bosses' Union - How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal (Paperback)
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The Bosses' Union - How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal (Paperback)
Series: Working Class in American History
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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.
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