Right and Labor in America

Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer teaches history at Loyola University Chicago and is author of Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press

• Introduction. Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries-Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy ShermerI. THE CONSERVATIVE SEARCH FOR SOCIAL HARMONYChapter 1. Unions, Modernity, and the Decline of American Economic Nationalism-Andrew Wender CohenChapter 2. The American Legion and Striking Workers During the Interwar Period-Christopher NehlsChapter 3. Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations-Chris Nyland and Kyle BruceII. REGION, RACE, AND RESISTANCE TO ORGANIZED LABORChapter 4. Capital Flight, "States' Rights," and the Anti-Labor Offensive After World War II-Tami J. FriedmanChapter 5. Orval Faubus and the Rise of Anti-Labor Populism in Northwestern Arkansas-Michael PierceChapter 6. "Is Freedom of the Individual Un-American?" Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943−1958-Elizabeth Tandy ShermerIII. APPROPRIATING THE LANGUAGE OF CIVIL RIGHTSChapter 7. Singing "The Right-to-Work Blues": The Politics of Race in the Campaign for "Voluntary Unionism" in Postwar California-Reuel Sc hillerChapter 8. Whose Rights? Litigating the Right to Work, 1940-1980-Sophia Z. LeeChapter 9. "Such Power Spells Tyranny": Business Opposition to Administrative Governance and the Transformation of Fair Employment Policy in Illinois, 1945−1964-Alexander GourseIV. THE SPECTER OF UNION POWER AND CORRUPTIONChapter 10. Pattern for Partnership: Putting Labor Racketeering on the Nation's Agenda in the Late 1950s-David WitwerChapter 11. "Compulsory Unionism": Sylvester Petro and the Career of an Anti-Union Idea, 1957−1987-Joseph McCartin and Jean-Christian VinelChapter 12. Wal-Mart, John Tate, and Their Anti-Union America-Nelson LichtensteinChapter 13. "All Deals Are Off": The Dunlop Commission and Employer Opposition to Labor Law Reform-John LoganChapter 14. Is Democracy in the Cards? A Democratic Defense of the Employee Free Choice Act-Susan OrrNotesList of ContributorsIndex

"Analyzing the place of organized labor in the history of American conservatism, The Right and Labor in America demonstrates that the antiunion conviction that recently buried the 2009 Employee Free Choice Act and laid siege to public-employee unions has been present in American conservatism since corporate capitalism emerged." (Journal of American History) "This volume makes a major contribution to a growing body of work on the origins of modern conservatism and the rise of the New Right. It vividly demonstrates that if antiunionism did not assume the same significance as antitaxation or Christian fundamentalism, it proved to be significant in its own right. Future scholars will have to pay heed." (Bruce Laurie, author of The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000)