The origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago /
Leon, Cedric de,
The origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago / Cedric de Leon. - 1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780801455889
Open and closed shop--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Labor--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Labor movement--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Working class--Political activity--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Political parties--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--19th century.
Electronic books.
HD6488.2.U6 / L46 2015
331.88/92097731109034
The origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago / Cedric de Leon. - 1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780801455889
Open and closed shop--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Labor--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Labor movement--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Working class--Political activity--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Political parties--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--19th century.
Electronic books.
HD6488.2.U6 / L46 2015
331.88/92097731109034