Labor Visions and State Power : The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States / Victoria C. Hattam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hattam, Victoria C., author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 141

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Political activity--United States--History--19th century.

Labor unions.

Labor--United States--History--19th century.

Labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

CHAPTER ONE. Labor, Ideology, and the State: Working-Class Formation in the United States

CHAPTER TWO. Judicial Regulation of Labor: The Common Law Doctrine of Criminal Conspiracy, 1806-1896

CHAPTER THREE. The Producers' Vision: A Republican Political Economy

CHAPTER FOUR. Disintegration of the Producers' Alliance and Politicization of Judicial Regulation, 1865-1896

CHAPTER FIVE. The United States in Comparative Perspective: English Labor and the Courts

CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion: Ideas, Interests, and the Concept of Class

APPENDIX A: American Labor Conspiracy Cases

APPENDIX B: Additional Cases

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400863082

1400863082

OCLC:

884013156