The Right and Labor in America

Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer teaches history at Loyola University Chicago and is author of Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press

Introduction. Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

—Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer


I. THE CONSERVATIVE SEARCH FOR SOCIAL HARMONY

Chapter 1. Unions, Modernity, and the Decline of American Economic Nationalism

—Andrew Wender Cohen

Chapter 2. The American Legion and Striking Workers During the Interwar Period

—Christopher Nehls

Chapter 3. Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations

—Chris Nyland and Kyle Bruce


II. REGION, RACE, AND RESISTANCE TO ORGANIZED LABOR

Chapter 4. Capital Flight, "States' Rights," and the Anti-Labor Offensive After World War II

—Tami J. Friedman

Chapter 5. Orval Faubus and the Rise of Anti-Labor Populism in Northwestern Arkansas

—Michael Pierce

Chapter 6. "Is Freedom of the Individual Un-American?" Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943−1958

—Elizabeth Tandy Shermer


III. APPROPRIATING THE LANGUAGE OF CIVIL RIGHTS

Chapter 7. Singing "The Right-to-Work Blues": The Politics of Race in the Campaign for "Voluntary Unionism" in Postwar California

—Reuel Sc hiller

Chapter 8. Whose Rights? Litigating the Right to Work, 1940-1980

—Sophia Z. Lee

Chapter 9. "Such Power Spells Tyranny": Business Opposition to Administrative Governance and the Transformation of Fair Employment Policy in Illinois, 1945−1964

—Alexander Gourse


IV. THE SPECTER OF UNION POWER AND CORRUPTION

Chapter 10. Pattern for Partnership: Putting Labor Racketeering on the Nation's Agenda in the Late 1950s

—David Witwer

Chapter 11. "Compulsory Unionism": Sylvester Petro and the Career of an Anti-Union Idea, 1957−1987

—Joseph McCartin and Jean-Christian Vinel

Chapter 12. Wal-Mart, John Tate, and Their Anti-Union America

—Nelson Lichtenstein

Chapter 13. "All Deals Are Off": The Dunlop Commission and Employer Opposition to Labor Law Reform

—John Logan

Chapter 14. Is Democracy in the Cards? A Democratic Defense of the Employee Free Choice Act

—Susan Orr


Notes

List of Contributors

Index