The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination

Contents --
Preface --
Introduction: Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries --
Part I. The Conservative Search for Social Harmony --
Chapter 1: Unions, Modernity, and the Decline of American Economic Nationalism --
Chapter 2. The American Legion and Striking Workers During the Interwar Period --
Chapter 3. Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations --
Part II. Region, Race, and Resistance to Organized Labor --
Chapter 4. Capital Flight, \'\"States\' Rights,\" and the Anti-Labor Offensive After World War II --
Chapter 5. Orval Faubus and the Rise of Anti-Labor Populism in Northwestern Arkansas --
Chapter 6. \"Is Freedom of the Individual Un-American?\" Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943-1958 --
Part 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 --
Chapter 8. Whose Rights? Litigating the Right to Work, 1940-1980 --
Chapter 9. \"Such Power Spells Tyranny\": Business Opposition to Administrative Governance and the Transformation of Fair Employment Policy in Illinois, 1945-1964 --
Part 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 --
Chapter 11. \"Compulsory Unionism\": Sylvester Petro and the Career of an Anti-Union Idea, 1957-1987 --
Chapter 12. Wal-Mart, John Tate, and Their Anti-Union America --
Chapter 13. \"All Deals Are Off\": The Dunlop Commission and Employer Opposition to Labor Law Reform --
Chapter 14. Is Democracy in the Cards? A Democratic Defense of the Employee Free Choice Act --
Notes --
List of Contributors --
Index --
Acknowledgments.