The origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago / Cedric de Leon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leon, Cedric de, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Open and closed shop--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.

Open and closed shop.

Labor--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.

Labor.

Labor movement--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.

Labor movement.

Working class--Political activity--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.

Working class.

Political parties--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.

Political parties.

History.

Working class--Political activity.

Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--19th century.

Chicago (Ill.).

Political science.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Cedric De Leon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Providence College. He is the author of Party and Society and coeditor of Building Blocs. Before becoming a professor he was by turns an organizer, a local union president, and a rank-and-file activist in the U.S. labor movement. Book jacket.

Contents:

Tracing the origins of the right to work

The critique of wage dependency, 1828-1844

The political crisis over slavery and the rise of free labor, 1844-1860

The war years, or, The triumphs and reversals of free labor ideology, 1861-1865

Anti-labor democracy and the working class, 1865-1887

Epilogue : neoliberalism in the rustbelt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801453083

0801453089

9780801479588

0801479584

OCLC:

895500889