The Bosses' Union How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal

• Main Author: Hulden, Vilja (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Illinois Press 2023
• Subjects: Politics & government; Industrial arbitration & negotiation; History of the Americas; Political Science; Labor & Employment Relations; History; American Studies
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At the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Union organization and collective bargaining briefly looked like a promising avenue to stability. But both employers and many middle-class observers remained wary of unions exercising independent power. Vilja Hulden...