Patricia Cayo Sexton

The War On Labor And The Left (eBook, PDF)

Understanding America's Unique Conservatism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how the use of power and repression has played out in U.S. institutions of law and government, in economic policies, and in the media. It explores American conservatism-that of a literal war on labor, waged by unusually powerful economic entities using repressive strategies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 335
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429961267
• Artikelnr.: 54017891

Autorenporträt

Patricia Cayo Sexton

Inhaltsangabe

For Brendan Sexton and Michael Harrington in Absentia
Introduction
Conservatism and Union Decline
Conservatism and the War on Labor
Consensus, Constraints, Conflict
Unions and Leaders
Unionism: Strategies of Repression
Employers, Mercenaries, and Armed Force
The Legal System: "We Are the Law"
Steel: 1892 and 1919
Critical Conflicts: Railway, Craft, and Industrial Unionism
Labor
left Politics: Strategies of Repression
Socialists and Sedition: The World War I Era
Un
Americanism: World War II and Cold War Eras
Peculiarities of the American Political System
Labor
left Politics
Strategies of Economic Manipulation and Violence
Subtler Technologies of Subjection: Managing Workers
Labor Law, the NLRB, and Gentrified Union Busters
Macroeconomic and Political Manipulations
The Power to Repress
That Peculiar Institution, American Capitalism
The Media Monopoly
Reprise and Prospects