Jeffrey Haydu
Biographic Data
| ID | 98901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Haydu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Haydu |
| SIGNATURE | HAYDU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Adding time to social movement diffusion
There is now a substantial literature on the diffusion of protest events, tactics, identities, and frames between locations and among movements. This paper asks how the patterns identified in this literature may change as the time scale of diffusion extends across single cycles of protest and beyond the life spans of individual activists. I focus especially on two types of differences: the changing weight of relational and non-relational channels…
Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis
Three layers of history in recurrent social movements: The Case of Food Reform
Using the understudied genre of food reform movements for illustration, we advocate greater attention to recurrent social movements. Analysis of these movements calls for combining three levels of historical analysis. One links the incidence and character of mobilization to long-term, large-scale historical changes; the second shows how periods of activism are also animated and shaped by specific historical contexts; and the third tracks legacies…
Consumer Citizenship and Cross‐Class Activism: The Case of the National Consumers' League, 1899–1918
Political consumerism is often criticized for its failure to cross class lines, a failure linked to the economic resources and cultural capital of affluent consumers. The early history of the National Consumers' League ( NCL ) illustrates how an alternative model of consumer citizenship can lead privileged shoppers to draw social boundaries in different ways. The NCL included lower‐class women and children as beneficiaries and occasional allies i…
Frame Brokerage in the Pure Food Movement, 1879–1906
The US campaign for ‘pure food’ from the 1880s through 1906 featured a diverse coalition of groups with quite different ways of defining the problem, identifying the relevant actors, and balancing political and consumerist tactics. This paper examines how these differences in framing, rather than undermining cooperation or impeding success, helped to broaden the coalition for pure food and to win passage of the 1906 Food and Drug Act. It pays par…
Cultural Modeling in Two Eras of U.S. Food Protest: Grahamites (1830s) and Organic Advocates (1960s–70s)
This article extends theories of social movement diffusion to encompass other kinds of cultural modeling. Using a comparison of two cases of food protest in the United States—the health food movement of William Sylvester Graham (1830s) and the early organic movement (1960s-1970s)—I emphasize similarities in underlying grievances and in the general advocacy of natural food alternatives. The two movements differed dramatically, however, in framing …
Casing Political Consumerism
In this article, we consider some of the ways in which the literature on political consumerism distinguishes this type of activism from social movements of the past. We then use three old and three recent U.S. examples of mobilization focused on food to highlight variations across cases—old and new—in how consumption-based identities are politicized and in how these movements are organized. We recommend using these variations in analytical proper…
Reversals of fortune: Path Dependency, Problem Solving, and Temporal Cases
Historical reversals highlight a basic methodological problem: is it possible to treat two successive periods both as independent cases to compare for causal analysis and as parts of a single historical sequence? I argue that one strategy for doing so, using models of path dependency, imposes serious limits on explanation. An alternative model which treats successive periods as contrasting solutions for recurrent problems offers two advantages. F…
Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
Model Employers and Good Government in the Late 19th and Late 20th Centuries
This study compares models of the good employer in the late 19th and late 20th centuries, using a content analysis of leading business periodicals. We find striking differences between the two eras, both in their recipes for more efficient employment practices and in their understanding of the benefits of those practices. We consider possible explanations for these divergent conceptions of "rational" labor relations and argue that each period's i…
Business Citizenship at Work: Cultural Transposition and Class Formation in Cincinnati, 1870-1910
This article links class analysis and institutionalism through a case study of late‐19th‐century employers. Class analysis extends institutionalism by highlighting an additional source of cultural transposition—a generalized identity summarized here as “business citizenship.” Institutionalism, in turn, shows how civic associations worked to unify employers and foster an overarching class consciousness. The case study provides an overview of class…
Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I
Journal Article Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I. By Jeffrey Haydu. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02289-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06628-6.) Get access Christopher Tomlins Christopher Tomlins American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law during World War II
Counter Action Frames: Employer Repertoires and the Union Menace in the Late Nineteenth Century
This article explores collective action frames associated with U.S. employer mobilization against unions in the late nineteenth century. The study makes several contributions to the literature on framing processes. First, it emphasizes that the interests and identities of counter-mobilizing elites are no less problematic than those of challengers. The character of labor protest did not in itself dictate how employers would construct the actors an…
Two Logics of Class Formation? Collective Identities among Proprietary Employers, 1880-1900
Workplace Governance, Class Formation, and the New Institutionalism
The "new institutionalism" in labor studies highlights the influence of unions, political parties, and states on workers' collective identities and mobilization. This article recommends extending the new institutionalism to include the organization of workplace governance. A theoretical discussion shows how institutions of employee representation can influence the leadership, solidarities, and scale of labor protest. An empirical illustration con…
The Realities of Work
Making Use of the Past: Time Periods as Cases to Compare and as Sequences of Problem Solving
This article examines methodological issues that arise when using information from one historical period to illuminate another. It begins by showing how the strengths and weaknesses of methods commonly used to compare institutions or regions reappear in comparisons between times. The discussion then turns to alternative approaches. The use of narrative and of path dependency to construct explanatory sequences are strategies that strike a welcome …
Skill and Occupational Change
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.Kim Voss
"No Change in Existing Standards"? Production, Employee Representation, and Government Policy in the United States, 1917-1919
Journal Article “No Change in Existing Standards”? Production, Employee Representation, and Government Policy in the United States, 1917–1919 Get access Jeffrey Haydu Jeffrey Haydu Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 25, Issue 1, Fall 1991, Pages 45–64, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/25.1.45 …
Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922
The Dynamics of Working-Class Politics: The Labour Movement in Preston, 1880-1940
Working-Class Mobilization and the Labor Process
Selective Mobilization in Craft Protest
Resource mobilization theory, while useful for understanding the conditions under which individuals act together to remedy their grievances, neglects other problematical features of collective action. In some settings the more interesting question is not why mobilization occurs but, instead, why individuals with varied grievances mobilize around certain goals and in certain alliances rather than others. Collective protest among skilled workers co…
Making Use of the Past: Time Periods as Cases to Compare and as Sequences of Problem Solving
This article examines methodological issues that arise when using information from one historical period to illuminate another. It begins by showing how the strengths and weaknesses of methods commonly used to compare institutions or regions reappear in comparisons between times. The discussion then turns to alternative approaches. The use of narrative and of path dependency to construct explanatory sequences are strategies that strike a welcome …
Counter Action Frames: Employer Repertoires and the Union Menace in the Late Nineteenth Century
This article explores collective action frames associated with U.S. employer mobilization against unions in the late nineteenth century. The study makes several contributions to the literature on framing processes. First, it emphasizes that the interests and identities of counter-mobilizing elites are no less problematic than those of challengers. The character of labor protest did not in itself dictate how employers would construct the actors an…
Reversals of fortune: Path Dependency, Problem Solving, and Temporal Cases
Historical reversals highlight a basic methodological problem: is it possible to treat two successive periods both as independent cases to compare for causal analysis and as parts of a single historical sequence? I argue that one strategy for doing so, using models of path dependency, imposes serious limits on explanation. An alternative model which treats successive periods as contrasting solutions for recurrent problems offers two advantages. F…
Three layers of history in recurrent social movements: The Case of Food Reform
Using the understudied genre of food reform movements for illustration, we advocate greater attention to recurrent social movements. Analysis of these movements calls for combining three levels of historical analysis. One links the incidence and character of mobilization to long-term, large-scale historical changes; the second shows how periods of activism are also animated and shaped by specific historical contexts; and the third tracks legacies…
Frame Brokerage in the Pure Food Movement, 1879–1906
The US campaign for ‘pure food’ from the 1880s through 1906 featured a diverse coalition of groups with quite different ways of defining the problem, identifying the relevant actors, and balancing political and consumerist tactics. This paper examines how these differences in framing, rather than undermining cooperation or impeding success, helped to broaden the coalition for pure food and to win passage of the 1906 Food and Drug Act. It pays par…
Employers, Unions, and American Exceptionalism: Pre-World War I Open Shops in the Machine Trades in Comparative Perspective
In comparative perspective, U.S. employers have been unusually hostile to unions. Their labor policies varied from one time and industry to another, however, in defiance of familiar interpretations of American “exceptionalism”. It is argued that before World War I, open shops and trade agreements represented different solutions for common labor problems. The timing of changes in technology and industrial structure relative to union growth determi…
Casing Political Consumerism
In this article, we consider some of the ways in which the literature on political consumerism distinguishes this type of activism from social movements of the past. We then use three old and three recent U.S. examples of mobilization focused on food to highlight variations across cases—old and new—in how consumption-based identities are politicized and in how these movements are organized. We recommend using these variations in analytical proper…
Business Citizenship at Work: Cultural Transposition and Class Formation in Cincinnati, 1870-1910
This article links class analysis and institutionalism through a case study of late‐19th‐century employers. Class analysis extends institutionalism by highlighting an additional source of cultural transposition—a generalized identity summarized here as “business citizenship.” Institutionalism, in turn, shows how civic associations worked to unify employers and foster an overarching class consciousness. The case study provides an overview of class…
Two Logics of Class Formation? Collective Identities among Proprietary Employers, 1880-1900
Adding time to social movement diffusion
There is now a substantial literature on the diffusion of protest events, tactics, identities, and frames between locations and among movements. This paper asks how the patterns identified in this literature may change as the time scale of diffusion extends across single cycles of protest and beyond the life spans of individual activists. I focus especially on two types of differences: the changing weight of relational and non-relational channels…
Consumer Citizenship and Cross‐Class Activism: The Case of the National Consumers' League, 1899–1918
Political consumerism is often criticized for its failure to cross class lines, a failure linked to the economic resources and cultural capital of affluent consumers. The early history of the National Consumers' League ( NCL ) illustrates how an alternative model of consumer citizenship can lead privileged shoppers to draw social boundaries in different ways. The NCL included lower‐class women and children as beneficiaries and occasional allies i…
Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law during World War II
Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis
Cultural Modeling in Two Eras of U.S. Food Protest: Grahamites (1830s) and Organic Advocates (1960s–70s)
This article extends theories of social movement diffusion to encompass other kinds of cultural modeling. Using a comparison of two cases of food protest in the United States—the health food movement of William Sylvester Graham (1830s) and the early organic movement (1960s-1970s)—I emphasize similarities in underlying grievances and in the general advocacy of natural food alternatives. The two movements differed dramatically, however, in framing …
Model Employers and Good Government in the Late 19th and Late 20th Centuries
This study compares models of the good employer in the late 19th and late 20th centuries, using a content analysis of leading business periodicals. We find striking differences between the two eras, both in their recipes for more efficient employment practices and in their understanding of the benefits of those practices. We consider possible explanations for these divergent conceptions of "rational" labor relations and argue that each period's i…
Workplace Governance, Class Formation, and the New Institutionalism
The "new institutionalism" in labor studies highlights the influence of unions, political parties, and states on workers' collective identities and mobilization. This article recommends extending the new institutionalism to include the organization of workplace governance. A theoretical discussion shows how institutions of employee representation can influence the leadership, solidarities, and scale of labor protest. An empirical illustration con…
Selective Mobilization in Craft Protest
Resource mobilization theory, while useful for understanding the conditions under which individuals act together to remedy their grievances, neglects other problematical features of collective action. In some settings the more interesting question is not why mobilization occurs but, instead, why individuals with varied grievances mobilize around certain goals and in certain alliances rather than others. Collective protest among skilled workers co…
Factory Politics in Britain and the United States: Engineers and Machinists, 1914-1919
The priorities of British and American trade unions center predominantly on the economic rewards received by union members. Collective bargaining and strikes typically focus on how much employers must pay for labor (in wages, pensions, and other benefits) rather than on how the labor, once purchased, may be used. Basic decisions regarding the organization of production are not considered by most unionists as legitimate issues for negotiation. Dis…
Books reviewed
Workers Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. By David Montgomery. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. viii, 189 pp. $14.95. Essays in Southern Labor History: Selected Papers, Southern Labor History Conference, 1976. Edited by Gary M. Fink and Merl E. Reed, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. xv 275 pp. $19.95. Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry. By Brian J. McCormick. …
The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921.Stephen Meyer III
Factory Politics in Britain and the United States: Engineers and Machinists, 1914-1919
The priorities of British and American trade unions center predominantly on the economic rewards received by union members. Collective bargaining and strikes typically focus on how much employers must pay for labor (in wages, pensions, and other benefits) rather than on how the labor, once purchased, may be used. Basic decisions regarding the organization of production are not considered by most unionists as legitimate issues for negotiation. Dis…
Willing Workers: The Work Ethics in Japan, England, and the United States
Based on findings from several international surveys concerning work environment and job attitudes, Sengoku discusses and analyzes the differences in and cultural bases of the work ethics of Japan, England, and the United States. In his comparisons of different national work settings and of different generations of Japanese workers, Sengoku probes the anatomy of a significant change that is taking place in Japan today--the erosion of traditional …
Comparative Historical Sociology: Teaching Materials and Bibliography
Employers, Unions, and American Exceptionalism: Pre-World War I Open Shops in the Machine Trades in Comparative Perspective
In comparative perspective, U.S. employers have been unusually hostile to unions. Their labor policies varied from one time and industry to another, however, in defiance of familiar interpretations of American “exceptionalism”. It is argued that before World War I, open shops and trade agreements represented different solutions for common labor problems. The timing of changes in technology and industrial structure relative to union growth determi…
The Dynamics of Working-Class Politics: The Labour Movement in Preston, 1880-1940
Working-Class Mobilization and the Labor Process
Selective Mobilization in Craft Protest
Resource mobilization theory, while useful for understanding the conditions under which individuals act together to remedy their grievances, neglects other problematical features of collective action. In some settings the more interesting question is not why mobilization occurs but, instead, why individuals with varied grievances mobilize around certain goals and in certain alliances rather than others. Collective protest among skilled workers co…
Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State
Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922
"No Change in Existing Standards"? Production, Employee Representation, and Government Policy in the United States, 1917-1919
Journal Article “No Change in Existing Standards”? Production, Employee Representation, and Government Policy in the United States, 1917–1919 Get access Jeffrey Haydu Jeffrey Haydu Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 25, Issue 1, Fall 1991, Pages 45–64, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/25.1.45 …
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.Kim Voss
Skill and Occupational Change
Workplace Governance, Class Formation, and the New Institutionalism
The "new institutionalism" in labor studies highlights the influence of unions, political parties, and states on workers' collective identities and mobilization. This article recommends extending the new institutionalism to include the organization of workplace governance. A theoretical discussion shows how institutions of employee representation can influence the leadership, solidarities, and scale of labor protest. An empirical illustration con…
The Realities of Work
Making Use of the Past: Time Periods as Cases to Compare and as Sequences of Problem Solving
This article examines methodological issues that arise when using information from one historical period to illuminate another. It begins by showing how the strengths and weaknesses of methods commonly used to compare institutions or regions reappear in comparisons between times. The discussion then turns to alternative approaches. The use of narrative and of path dependency to construct explanatory sequences are strategies that strike a welcome …
Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I
Journal Article Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I. By Jeffrey Haydu. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02289-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06628-6.) Get access Christopher Tomlins Christopher Tomlins American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law during World War II
Counter Action Frames: Employer Repertoires and the Union Menace in the Late Nineteenth Century
This article explores collective action frames associated with U.S. employer mobilization against unions in the late nineteenth century. The study makes several contributions to the literature on framing processes. First, it emphasizes that the interests and identities of counter-mobilizing elites are no less problematic than those of challengers. The character of labor protest did not in itself dictate how employers would construct the actors an…
Two Logics of Class Formation? Collective Identities among Proprietary Employers, 1880-1900
Business Citizenship at Work: Cultural Transposition and Class Formation in Cincinnati, 1870-1910
This article links class analysis and institutionalism through a case study of late‐19th‐century employers. Class analysis extends institutionalism by highlighting an additional source of cultural transposition—a generalized identity summarized here as “business citizenship.” Institutionalism, in turn, shows how civic associations worked to unify employers and foster an overarching class consciousness. The case study provides an overview of class…
Model Employers and Good Government in the Late 19th and Late 20th Centuries
This study compares models of the good employer in the late 19th and late 20th centuries, using a content analysis of leading business periodicals. We find striking differences between the two eras, both in their recipes for more efficient employment practices and in their understanding of the benefits of those practices. We consider possible explanations for these divergent conceptions of "rational" labor relations and argue that each period's i…
Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
Casing Political Consumerism
In this article, we consider some of the ways in which the literature on political consumerism distinguishes this type of activism from social movements of the past. We then use three old and three recent U.S. examples of mobilization focused on food to highlight variations across cases—old and new—in how consumption-based identities are politicized and in how these movements are organized. We recommend using these variations in analytical proper…
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