Against Labor
How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7306030 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce Cohen (0000-0003-2913-6238, Emeritus, Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts), Bruce Mz Cohen (0000-0002-8806-2630, Worcester State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 645-646 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jay294 |
| OpenAlex | W2906592006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
By the 1980s, labor historians began to look more closely at the role of employers in labor-management relations. This endeavor resulted in a prodigious amount of scholarship. Some of this scholarship is to be found in this edited collection. The key to understanding employer activism against labor is found in a series of questions and answers presented by the editors in the introduction to these essays dedicated to understanding employer activism against labor. The editors also include “a brief overview of employers organizing against labor” and continue with a broad essay by Elizabeth Esch and David Roediger on race and labor management in the United States. Chad Pearson's essay, “‘Free Shops For Free Men’? The Challenges of Strikebreaking and Union-Busting in the Progressive Era,” follows the development of the open shop mentality, accompanied by depictions of strikebreaking and union busting in the Progressive Era. A balanced essay by Thomas A. Klug concerning employers' push for the open shop and the resistance by labor in Detroit in 1907 follows Pearson's contribution. His “Employers' Path to the Open Shop in Detroit, 1930–7” breaks new ground in depictions of the battle between the two sides as a stalemate. Robert H. Woodrum introduces race again as a factor in labor relations in “Race, Unionism, and the Open-Shop Movement along the Waterfront in Mobile, Alabama.” Readers learn a great deal about southern labor-management relations over many decades in the twentieth century, including information on race relations
Battle · Economics · Labor history · Labor relations · Labor union · Labour economics · Management · Open shop · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Scholarship · Sociology · Stalemate · Gender Studies · History · Industrial relations · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |