Rosemary Feurer is an associate professor of history at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950. Chad Pearson teaches history at Collin College. He is the author of Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement.
"Boldly challenges the scholarship that considers employers as a
malleable force that often compromises when social movements forge
political environments that are inimical to their interests.
Contributes enormously to our understanding of business tactics and
strategy."--Immanuel Ness, author of Guest Workers and Resistance
to U.S. Corporate Despotism
"At a time when public sector unions are under renewed attack and
private-sector union membership hovers near levels not seen since
the early twentieth century, Against Labor offers a potent,
powerful reminder that, as Feurer and Pearson put it, 'People, not
faceless markets, shaped this story.'" --The Journal of Southern
History
"An excellent volume. The standard of scholarship and writing is
very high, and the editors have worked hard to produce a cohesive
collection of essays that shed much light on a still-understudied
phenomenon in US and labor history more broadly."--Australasian
Journal of American Studies
"These essays make one thing quite clear: the existential threat
that US unions currently face has been building for
decades"--Social History
"Recommended."--Choice
"The respective chapters make for interesting reading. They raise
fundamental issues concerning the long arc of industrial relations
or labour history in America; of the long, unrelenting
class-based campaign of employers and the various strategies and
methods they have used to keep unions at bay and counter their
attempts to improve the wages and working conditions of American
workers."--Labour History
"The decline of organized labor in recent decades is often
attributed to globalization, financialization, and right-wing
politics. But the compelling essays in this important volume show
that the limits to workers’ collective power stem more basically
from the concerted anti-union efforts of their employers dating
back to the nineteenth century. Chronicling how capitalists have
effectively forged a class-conscious social movement 'against
labor,' these critical case studies make a vital contribution to
the history of capitalism while illuminating the challenges facing
workers today."--Jeffrey Sklansky, author of The Soul's Economy:
Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920
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