Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War...

Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War...
ISBN-10
0252066286
ISBN-13
9780252066283
Category
Political Science
Pages
261
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
Jeffrey Haydu

Description

In Making American Industry Safe for Democracy, a work of historical sociology, Jeffrey Haydu explores how basic political and economic relationships were restabilized in the aftermath of the war. Haydu compares U.S. efforts to reconstruct an open-shop regime that excluded trade unions with the reform of industrial relations in Britain and Germany. Then he compares industries within the United States and traces the extraordinarily complex manner in which prewar class relations and wartime crisis led the state to restructure employee representation. In this important study of new strategies for managing work and conflict that were emerging by the 1920s, the author also forces us to reassess the role of organization in shaping working-class mobilization and protest.

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