The Origins of Right to Work (English, Cedric de Leon)

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"Right to work" states weaken collective bargaining rights and limit the ability of unions to effectively advocate on behalf of workers. As more and more states consider enacting right-to-work laws, observers trace the contemporary attack on organized labor to the 1980s and the Reagan era. In The Origins of Right to Work , however, Cedric de Leon contends that this antagonism began a century earlier with the Northern victory in the U.S. Civil War…

ISBN: 9780801479588