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  • Reform or Repression

    Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement

    by Chad Pearson ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    Historians have characterized the open-shop movement of the early twentieth century as a cynical attempt by business to undercut the labor movement by twisting the American ideals of independence and self-sufficiency to their own ends. The precursors to today's right-to-work movement, advocates of the open shop in the Progressive Era argued that honest workers should have the right to choose ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Reform or Repression

    Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement

    by Chad Pearson ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    Historians have characterized the open-shop movement of the early twentieth century as a cynical attempt by business to undercut the labor movement by twisting the American ideals of independence and self-sufficiency to their own ends. The precursors to today's right-to-work movement, advocates of the open shop in the Progressive Era argued that honest workers should have the right to choose ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Against Labor

    How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

    by Rosemary Feurer, Chad Pearson, Michael Dennis, Elizabeth Esch, Dolores E Janiewski, Thomas A Klug, Peter Rachleff, David Roediger, Howard Stanger0, Robert Woodrum1 ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

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    Series series Oxford History of the United States
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  • Liberty from All Masters

    The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People

    by Barry C. Lynn ...
    "An eye-opening and persuasive defense of robust antitrust enforcement as essential to the core principles of American democracy" ( Publishers Weekly )."Very few thinkers in recent years have done more to shift the debate in Washington than Barry Lynn. In Liberty from All Masters , he proves himself as a lyrical theorist and a bold interpreter of history.... ... Read more

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  • A History of America in Ten Strikes

    by Erik Loomis ...
    **Recommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These TimesAn "entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued" ( The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to change the balance of power in America"A brilliantly recounted American history through the prism of major labor struggles, with critically important lessons for those who seek a better future for ... Read more

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  • The Monied Metropolis

    New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896

    by Sven Beckert ...
    This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power, and decisively put their mark on the age. Professor Beckert explores how capital-owning New Yorkers overcame their distinct ... Read more

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  • Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement

    by Jack M. Bloom ...
    Revised and updated: the award-winning historical analysis of the civil rights movement examining the interplay of race and class in the American South.In Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement, sociologist Jack M. Bloom explains what the civil rights movement was about, why it was successful, and why it fell short of some of its objectives. With a unique sociohistorical analysis, he argues ... Read more

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  • American Tax Resisters

    by Romain D. Huret ...
    “The American taxpayer”—angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Movement

    The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in ... Read more

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  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed ... Read more

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  • The Radical Fund

    How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

    by John Fabian Witt ...
    As recommended on The Ezra Klein ShowFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the “engrossing” (The New York Times) secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance. In a ... Read more

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