Chapter 10. Pattern for Partnership: Putting Labor Racketeering on the Nation’s Agenda in the Late 1950s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 1
5. Part I. The Conservative Search for Social Harmony
6. Chapter 1: Unions, Modernity, and the Decline of American Economic Nationalism 15
7. Chapter 2. The American Legion and Striking Workers During the Interwar Period 27
8. Chapter 3. Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations 42
9. Part II. Region, Race, and Resistance to Organized Labor
10. Chapter 4. Capital Flight, ‘“States’ Rights,” and the Anti-Labor Offensive After World War II 79
11. Chapter 5. Orval Faubus and the Rise of Anti-Labor Populism in Northwestern Arkansas 98
12. Chapter 6. “Is Freedom of the Individual Un-American?” Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943–1958 114
13. Part III. Appropriating the Language of Civil Rights
14. Chapter 7. Singing “The Right-to-Work Blues”: The Politics of Race in the Campaign for “Voluntary Unionism” in Postwar California 139
15. Chapter 8. Whose Rights? Litigating the Right to Work, 1940–1980 160
16. Chapter 9. “Such Power Spells Tyranny”: Business Opposition to Administrative Governance and the Transformation of Fair Employment Policy in Illinois, 1945–1964 181
17. Part IV. The Specter of Union Power and Corruption
18. Chapter 10. Pattern for Partnership: Putting Labor Racketeering on the Nation’s Agenda in the Late 1950s 207
19. Chapter 11. “Compulsory Unionism”: Sylvester Petro and the Career of an Anti-Union Idea, 1957–1987 226
20. Chapter 12. Wal-Mart, John Tate, and Their Anti-Union America 252
21. Chapter 13. “All Deals Are Off”: The Dunlop Commission and Employer Opposition to Labor Law Reform 276
22. Chapter 14. Is Democracy in the Cards? A Democratic Defense of the Employee Free Choice Act 296
23. Notes 321
24. List of Contributors 403
25. Index 407
26. Acknowledgments 421