Union-free America : workers and antiunion culture / Lawrence Richards.
Union-free America : workers and antiunion culture / Lawrence Richards.
Union-free America : workers and antiunion culture / Lawrence Richards.
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
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N331.88097/ 6
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English
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Physical content
x, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The union image in the age of industrialization -- The postwar offensive against organized labor -- The postwar boom and organized labor's lost legitimacy -- Union outsiders versus the Ix family : blue-collar workers and unions in the late twentieth century -- Antiunionism in the citadel of organize...
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
c2008.
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"Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture confronts one of the most vexing questions with which labor activists and labor academics struggle: why is there so much opposition to organized labor in the United States? Scholars often point to powerful obstacles from employers or governmental policies, but Lawrence Richards offers a more comple...
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Union-free America : workers and antiunion culture / Lawrence Richards.
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The working class in American history.
The working class in American history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-237) and index.
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c2008.
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N331.88097/ 6
Record Identifier
74VMQyO8ybEb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMQyO8ybEb
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ISBN
9780252032714 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252032713 (cloth : alk. paper)
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331.880973
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991000605309702626
