Ebook: Against labor: how U.S. employers organized to defeat union activism

Scientific management, racist science, and race management / Elizabeth Esch and David Roediger -- "Free shops for free men"? The challenges of strikebreaking and union-busting in the Progressive era / Chad Pearson -- Employers' path to the open shop in Detroit, 1903-7 / Thomas A. King -- Race, unionism, and the open-shop movement along the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama / Robert H. Woodrum -- Through a glass, darkly : the NLRB, employer counteroffensives, investigative committees, and the CIO / Dolores E. Janiewski -- The strange career of A.A Ahner : reconsidering blackjacks and briefcases / Rosemary Feurer -- A moderate employers' association in a "house divided" : the case of the employing printers of Columbus, Ohio, 1887-1987 / Howard R. Stanger -- Litigating for profit : business, law, and labor in the new economy south / Michael Dennis -- Capital and labor in the 21st century : the end of history? / Peter Rachleff.;Against labor highlights the amazingly successful efforts by employers to control workers while simultaneously shaping themselves into a new class. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of companies that aggressively opposed unionization. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as the intersection of race and ethnicity with anti-labor activity, and anti-unionism in the context of neoliberalism. A timely and revealing collection, Against labor deepens our understanding of management history and employer activism and their metamorphic effects on the American workplace. --