Book contents
- For Labor To Build Upon
- For Labor to Build Upon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An Overview
- 3 Unions, Employment Conditions, and American Exceptionalism
- 4 The Historical Backdrop
- 5 The Modern Labor Framework
- 6 The Gig Economy and All That
- 7 American Amateur Players Arise
- 8 Union Decline
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
4 - The Historical Backdrop
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022
Book contents
- For Labor To Build Upon
- For Labor to Build Upon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An Overview
- 3 Unions, Employment Conditions, and American Exceptionalism
- 4 The Historical Backdrop
- 5 The Modern Labor Framework
- 6 The Gig Economy and All That
- 7 American Amateur Players Arise
- 8 Union Decline
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Musings and recollections about the “good old days” are integral to any discussion of organized labor today in the twenty-first century and its decline. In the United States, like Europe, the first forms of labor organization were the so-called mutual aid societies or craft guilds1 that were designed to limit entry into a trade or industry and to preserve standards.
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- For Labor To Build UponWars, Depression and Pandemic, pp. 50 - 65Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022