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Informationen zum Autor Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer teaches history at Loyola University Chicago and is author of Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press Klappentext Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer teaches history at Loyola University Chicago and is author of Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press Zusammenfassung This collection of essays by leading American historians explains how and why the fight against unionism has long been central to the meaning of contemporary conservatism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries —Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer I. THE CONSERVATIVE SEARCH FOR SOCIAL HARMONY Chapter 1. Unions, Modernity, and the Decline of American Economic Nationalism —Andrew Wender Cohen Chapter 2. The American Legion and Striking Workers During the Interwar Period —Christopher Nehls Chapter 3. Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations —Chris Nyland and Kyle Bruce II. REGION, RACE, AND RESISTANCE TO ORGANIZED LABOR Chapter 4. Capital Flight, "States' Rights," and the Anti-Labor Offensive After World War II —Tami J. Friedman Chapter 5. Orval Faubus and the Rise of Anti-Labor Populism in Northwestern Arkansas —Michael Pierce Chapter 6. "Is Freedom of the Individual Un-American?" Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943?58 —Elizabeth Tandy Shermer III. APPROPRIATING THE LANGUAGE OF CIVIL RIGHTS Chapter 7. Singing "The Right-to-Work Blues": The Politics of Race in the Campaign for "Voluntary Unionism" in Postwar California —Reuel Sc hiller Chapter 8. Whose Rights? Litigating the Right to Work, 1940-1980 —Sophia Z. Lee Chapter 9. "Such Power Spells Tyranny": Business Opposition to Administrative Governance and the Transformation of Fair Employment Policy in Illinois, 1945?64 —Alexander Gourse IV. THE SPECTER OF UNION POWER AND CORRUPTION Chapter 10. Pattern for Partnership: Putting Labor Racketeering on the Nation's Agenda in the Late 1950s —David Witwer Chapter 11. "Compulsory Unionism": Sylvester Petro and the Career of an Anti-Union Idea, 1957?87 —Joseph McCartin and Jean-Christian Vinel Chapter 12. Wal-Mart, John Tate, and Their Anti-Union America —Nelson Lichtenstein Chapter 13. "All Deals Are Off": The Dunlop Commission and Employer Opposition to Labor Law Reform —John Logan Chapter 14. Is Democracy in the Cards? A Democratic Defense of the Employee Free Choice Act —Susan Orr Notes List of Contributors Index ...
