The origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago / Cedric de Leon.

By: Leon, Cedric de [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780801455889Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago.DDC classification: 331.88/92097731109034 LOC classification: HD6488.2.U6 | L46 2015Online resources: Click to View
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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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