Rights delayed [electronic resource] : the American state and the defeat of progressive unions, 1935-1950 / Charles Romney.
2016
KF3389 .R66 2016eb
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Rights delayed [electronic resource] : the American state and the defeat of progressive unions, 1935-1950 / Charles Romney.
ISBN
9780190250317 (electronic book)
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (271 pages) : map
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190250294 doi
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KF3389 .R66 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.88097309044
Summary
Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s, yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? 'Rights Delayed' argues that anti-communism and Congressional conservatism merely intensified the main reason for the decline of progressive unions: the New Deal state's focus on legal procedure.
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Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s, yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? 'Rights Delayed' argues that anti-communism and Congressional conservatism merely intensified the main reason for the decline of progressive unions: the New Deal state's focus on legal procedure.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Legal procedure in the Pacific canneries
Contesting contracts in northern California
The responsive wartime state
The seafarer strikes and the postwar progressive victory
Politics, procedure, and Paul Herzog
Blacklists and strikes
The blacklist wins
The cold war in the canneries
Paying for a procedural state
Conclusion.
Contesting contracts in northern California
The responsive wartime state
The seafarer strikes and the postwar progressive victory
Politics, procedure, and Paul Herzog
Blacklists and strikes
The blacklist wins
The cold war in the canneries
Paying for a procedural state
Conclusion.