Managers and nonunion workers in the rubber industry: union avoidance strategies in the 1930s. (Labor History and Industrial Relations: a Symposium)

From: Industrial and Labor Relations Review | Date: October 1, 1989| Author: Nelson, Daniel | Copyright information

MANAGERS AND NONUNION WORKERS IN THE RUBBER INDUSTRY: UNION AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES IN THE 1930s

In retrospect it is clear that the Forgotten Man of the 1930s was not the worker, as Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested, but the manager who sat on the other side of the bargaining table. In the early labor histories of the decade employers appear, if at all, as embodiments of the stereotypes of New Deal and CIO propaganda. Tom Girdler and Harry Bennett, no less than J. P. Morgan a...

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