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De Leon, Cedric

 
9780801479588: The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago
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ISBN 10: 0801479584 ISBN 13: 9780801479588
Editorial: Ilr Press, 2015

Sinopsis

"Right to work" states weaken collective bargaining rights and limit the ability of unions to effectively advocate on behalf of workers. As more and more states consider enacting right-to-work laws, observers trace the contemporary attack on organized labor to the 1980s and the Reagan era. In The Origins of Right to Work, however, Cedric de Leon contends that this antagonism began a century earlier with the northern victory in the U.S. Civil War, when the political establishment revised the English common-law doctrine of conspiracy to equate collective bargaining with the enslavement of free white men.

In doing so, de Leon connects past and present, raising critical questions that address pressing social issues. Drawing on the changing relationship between political parties and workers in nineteenth-century Chicago, de Leon concludes that if workers' collective rights are to be preserved in a global economy, workers must chart a course of political independence and overcome long-standing racial and ethnic divisions.

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Acerca del autor

Cedric de Leon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Providence College. He is the author of Party and Society: Reconstructing a Sociology of Democratic Party Politics and co-editor of Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society. Before becoming a professor he was by turns an organizer, a local union president, and a rank-and-file activist in the U.S. labor movement.

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Editorial
Ilr Press
Año de publicación
2015
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801479584
ISBN 13 
9780801479588
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Número de páginas
184
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