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"A book of enormous import ... a wealth of evidence to demonstrate the extent to which the American business community sought to discredit New Deal liberalism and undermine the power and legitimacy of organized labor." -- Business History Review
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This review is from: Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 (History of Communication) (Paperback)
A wonderful and well researched study of the origins of corporate power in America. It began with the Big Business reaction towards the gains made by the American labor movement in the 30s with the FLSA. That reaction was embodied in the most anti-labor law passed in the history of America, the 1947 Taft/Hartley Law. This is a must read for all labor activists out there. The book goes into the strategies and propaganda used then to sway the American people against organized labor. Many of the strategies of the past are still used today by American Business and this book will help you recognize them, answer them and effectively rebut them.
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This book was recently strongly endorsed by Noam Chomsky and for good reason. There is an extreme scarcity of books that address the mechanics of propaganda in the US. For people interested in the details of how the US became the most propagandized society on earth, this book is an invaluable resource.
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This is a great book. The Business Class in America will stop at nothing when it comes to the war on America's workers. Turn on the radio today and you can hear the same BS right wing propaganda from 50 years ago. Americans need to wake up.
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During the winter of 1945-46, a strike wave of massive proportions swept the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
moderate business leaders, company consciousness, postwar employers, economic education programs, lay committee, conservative business leaders, industrial recreation, industrial union council, community services committees, free enterprise ideology, conservative employers, employee recreation, business moderates, community relations program, guaranteed annual wage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Howard Pew, Chamber of Commerce, National Council, World War, Federal Council, National Association of Manufacturers, New Deal, General Electric, United States, General Motors, Crane Papers, Pew Papers, Community Services Committee, Advertising Council, John Ramsay, Personnel Series, Ramsay Papers, Walter Reuther, General Board, Noel Sargent, Taft Papers, International Harvester, Executive Board, George Meany New!
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During the winter of 1945-46, a strike wave of massive proportions swept the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
moderate business leaders, company consciousness, postwar employers, economic education programs, lay committee, conservative business leaders, industrial recreation, industrial union council, community services committees, free enterprise ideology, conservative employers, employee recreation, business moderates, community relations program, guaranteed annual wage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Howard Pew, Chamber of Commerce, National Council, World War, Federal Council, National Association of Manufacturers, New Deal, General Electric, United States, General Motors, Crane Papers, Pew Papers, Community Services Committee, Advertising Council, John Ramsay, Personnel Series, Ramsay Papers, Walter Reuther, General Board, Noel Sargent, Taft Papers, International Harvester, Executive Board, George Meany New!
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- American Labor on 5 pages
- Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle by David Brody on 5 pages
- American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century (The American Moment) by Robert H. Zieger on 4 pages
- The Social Responsibilities of Business: Company and Community, 1900-1960 by Morrell Heald on page 183, page 184, and page 212
- Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 by Robert J. Donovan on page 57, page 59, and page 62
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- Framed!: Labor and the Corporate Media (ILR Press books) by Christopher R. Martin on 5 pages
- Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America by Ellen Schrecker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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