Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States.

Abstract

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Keywords

Voluntarism (philosophy)VisionState (computer science)IdeologyPower (physics)PoliticsPolitical scienceEconomic historyPolitical economyHistoryPublic administrationSociologyLawAnthropology

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Year: 1994
Type: article
Volume: 99
Issue: 4
Pages: 1396-1396
Citations: 167
Access: Closed

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                                    Bruce Levine, 
                                
                                    Victoria Hattam
                                
                            (1994). 
                            Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States.. 
                            The American Historical Review
                            , 99
                            (4)
                            , 1396-1396.
                            https://doi.org/10.2307/2168935

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DOI: 10.2307/2168935