The Bosses' Union : How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal /

"From the 1880s through the 1920s, American labor endured an ongoing assault on worker's rights by open shop campaigns organized by employers. Vilja Hulden delves into the decades-long effort to not only counter but discredit labor's attempts to exercise its own power. The employer-in...

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Main Author: Hulden, Vilja, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
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