Open Shop Encyclopedia For Debaters A Reference Book For Use Of Teachers Students And Public Speakers

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Excerpt from Open Shop Encyclopedia for Debaters: A Reference Book for Use of Teachers, Students and Public Speakers This Encyclopedia is designed to meet the needs of debaters seeking information concerning the open shop. But it should also be of value to teachers and students of economics, especially in the field of labor relations. Investigators studying such topics as strikes, union apprenticeship, etc., will likewise find much useful material. It must be borne in mind that the Open shop question is simply one phase of the great industrial problem. There are other important phases of that problem which must be solved, but perhaps none Of them concerns more directly the relations that shall exist between employers and workers, between fellow workers, and between industry and the public. The public is more and more realizing that it is vitally concerned in these problems. There is scarcely an industrial dispute which does not adversely affect thousands, in some cases millions, of people who are not immediate parties to the controversy. The public itself is realizing this; the ever-increasing complexity Of the industrial structure and the resultant inter-dependence between men has forced their attention. The Winnipeg and Seattle general strikes, the outlaw railroad strike, the coal and steel strikes, and the Boston police strike have forcefully reminded the public that it must take an intelligent and active part in the problems of indus try. We believe that when the public obtains the real facts as to these problems and the principles concerned that in the long run it will decide rightly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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At the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Union organization and collective bargaining briefly looked like a promising avenue to stability. But both employers and many middle-class observers remained wary of unions exercising independent power. Vilja Hulden reveals how this tension provided the opening for pro-business organizations to shift public attention from concerns about inequality and dangerous working conditions to a belief that unions trampled on an individual's right to work. Inventing the term closed shop, employers mounted what they called an open-shop campaign to undermine union demands that workers at unionized workplaces join the union. Employer organizations lobbied Congress to resist labor's proposals as tyrannical, brought court cases to taint labor's tactics as illegal, and influenced newspaper coverage of unions. While employers were not a monolith nor all-powerful, they generally agreed that unions were a nuisance. Employers successfully leveraged money and connections to create perceptions of organized labor that still echo in our discussions of worker rights.