Title Heartland blues : labor rights in the industrial Midwest / Marc Dixon

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Back to the Future -- The Capital-Labor Accord in Action -- Union Discord in Indiana -- Flipping the Script in Ohio -- The Insider Route in Wisconsin -- A Holding Pattern in the Midwest -- Labor Rights in the Era of Union Decline Summary "Heartland Blues provides a new perspective on union decline by revisiting the labor movement at its historical peak in the 1950s and analyzing campaigns over right-to-work laws and public sector collective bargaining rights in the industrial Midwest. The focus on 1950's labor conflicts, including union failures, departs from popular and academic treatments of the period that emphasize consensus, an accord between capital and labor in collective bargaining, or the conservative drift and bureaucratization of the labor movement. The state campaigns examined in Heartland Blues instead reveal a labor movement often beset by dysfunctional divisions, ambivalent political allies, and substantial employer opposition. Drawing on social movement theories, the book shows how many of the key ingredients necessary for less powerful groups to succeed, including effective organization and influential political allies, were not a given for labor at its historical peak but instead varied in important ways across the industrial heartland. These limits slowed unions in the 1950s. Not only did labor fail to crack the Sunbelt, it never really conquered the industrial Midwest where most union members resided in the mid-twentieth century. This diminished union influence within the Democratic Party and in society. The 1950s are far more than an interesting side story. Indeed, the labor movement never solved many of these basic problems. The labor movement's social and political isolation and their limited responses to employer mobilization became a death knell in the coming decades as unions sought organizational and legislative remedies to industrial decline and the rising anti-union tide"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 12, 2020) Subject Labor movement -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century Collective bargaining -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century Collective labor agreements -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century Labor unions -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century Collective bargaining Collective labor agreements Labor movement Labor unions Middle West Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020020750 ISBN 9780190917043 0190917040 9780190917067 0190917067 0190917059 9780190917050

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