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

Book Overview

The legislative attack on public sector unionism that gave rise to the uproar in Wisconsin and other union strongholds in 2011 was not just a reaction to the contemporary economic difficulties faced by the government. Rather, it was the result of a longstanding political and ideological hostility to the very idea of trade unionism put forward by a conservative movement whose roots go as far back as the Haymarket Riot of 1886. The controversy in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812223608
• ISBN13: 9780812223606
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"