If the Workers Took a Notion: The Right to Strike and American Political Development

by Josiah Bartlett Lambert

Book Overview

Once a fundamental civic right, strikes are now constrained and contested. In an unusual and thought-provoking history, Josiah Bartlett Lambert shows how the ability to strike was transformed from a fundamental right that made the citizenship of working people possible into a conditional and commercialized function. Arguing that the executive branch, rather than the judicial branch, was initially responsible for the shift in attitudes about the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080144327X
• ISBN13: 9780801443275
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher