The Right and Labor in America Politics, Ideology, and Imagination

"Analyzing the place of organized labor in the history of American conservatism, The Right and Labor in America demonstrates that the antiunion conviction that recently buried the 2009 Employee Free Choice Act and laid siege to public-employee unions has been present in American conservatism since corporate capitalism emerged." (Journal of American History) "This volume makes a major contribution to a growing body of work on the origins of modern conservatism and the rise of the New Right. It vividly demonstrates that if antiunionism did not assume the same significance as antitaxation or Christian fundamentalism, it proved to be significant in its own right. Future scholars will have to pay heed." (Bruce Laurie, author of The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000)