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
2 - An Overview
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
The lines of rigid conflict between political parties noted in Chapter 1 were not always present prior to the New Deal and the post–New Deal era in which the Eisenhower administration functioned. In contrast to their party’s political position from the latter part of the twentieth century into the twenty-first century, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were hardly hostile to unions and the interests of working people. Quite the contrary.
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- For Labor To Build UponWars, Depression and Pandemic, pp. 11 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022