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Author

Leon, Cedric de, author.

Title The origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago / Cedric de Leon.

Publication Info.

Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrations
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Tracing the origins of the right to work -- The critique of wage dependency, 1828-1844 -- The political crisis over slavery and the rise of free labor, 1844-1860 -- The war years, or, The triumphs and reversals of free labor ideology, 1861-1865 -- Anti-labor democracy and the working class, 1865-1887 -- Epilogue : neoliberalism in the rustbelt.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Open and closed shop -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
	Labor -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
	Labor movement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
	Working class -- Political activity -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
	Political parties -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
	Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Leon, Cedric de. Origins of right to work : antilabor democracy in nineteenth-century Chicago. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015 9780801479588
ISBN	9780801453083 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780801479588 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780801455889 (electronic bk.)