Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in AmericaM.E. Sharpe, 6 d’abr. 1998 Laboring for Freedom examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labor history. Nine chronological chapters develop themes which show that liberty of contract and inalienable rights form two contradictory traditions concerning freedom: one tradition insists that liberty involves the expression of individual will with regard to one's property (i.e. one's labor); the second tradition holds that there are fundamental rights of man that must neither be taken away by the state nor surrendered by the individual. The tensions between these two concepts are traced in the book. Topics covered include republican independence, corporate paternalism, the compromises of collective bargaining, and human rights in a global economy. The book argues that ultimately freedom is best analyzed as a changing set of constraints, rather than an attainable ideal. |
Continguts
| 3 | |
| 11 | |
| 13 | |
Contracting Liberties | 33 |
Illusory Freedoms | 53 |
The Properties of Labor | 55 |
A Skillful Control Managing the Labor Process | 68 |
Incorporating Paternalism | 84 |
Union Compromise | 117 |
Rights of Passage | 130 |
Playing the Global Piano | 149 |
Memories and Challenges | 166 |
Notes | 169 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 195 |
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Laboring for Freedom: New Look at the History of Labor in America Daniel Jacoby Previsualització limitada - 2015 |
Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America Daniel Jacoby Previsualització limitada - 1998 |
Laboring for Freedom: New Look at the History of Labor in America Daniel Jacoby Previsualització limitada - 2015 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 30 - But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated...
Pàgina 13 - Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a state, that does not represent its ability, as well as its property. But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert, and timid, it never can be safe from the invasions of ability, unless it be, out of all proportion, predominant in the representation.
Pàgina 117 - We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. "Necessitous men are not free men." People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Pàgina 28 - The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention.
Pàgina 55 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Pàgina 28 - To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public; but to narrow the competition must always be against it...
Pàgina 98 - At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position.
Pàgina 61 - Every one has a right to enjoy the fruits and advantages of his own enterprise, industry, skill, and credit. He has no right to be...
Pàgina 28 - It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.
Pàgina 166 - I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else would lead you out.
Referències a aquest llibre
The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 Volumes] Cynthia Clark Northrup Previsualització no disponible - 2003 |