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The origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leon, Cedric de, (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Open and closed shop > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Labor > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Labor movement > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Working class > Political activity > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Political parties > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Politics and government > 19th century.
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Table of 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.

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