Abstract

As the overall unionization rate in the United States dips ever closer to single digits, the decades-long assault on organized labor seems to be reaching its zenith. Nothing stirs conservative passions like the idea that workers should have some protection, voice, and a vehicle for advancing their interests in the workplace. As Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer write in their introduction to The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, "While the American Right has many ideological and institutional strands, a commitment to laissez-faire within the labor market, or rather to a regulatory regime that precludes the self-organization of the vast majority of American workers, has been consistent and persistent..."

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