Workplace Rights: A Popular Theater Performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-201
Author(s):  
Meryl Becker ◽  
Richard Rabin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Theater ◽  
Workplace Rights

Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 693
Author(s):  
George Pahomov ◽  
E. Anthony Swift
Keyword(s):  
Popular Theater

A Changing Workforce

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-236
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Delton
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
National Association ◽  
Historically White ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Workplace Rights ◽  
National Association Of Manufacturers

This chapter examines the overlap between African Americans' demands for jobs and conservatives' push for “right to work” laws. While compulsory union dues were very different from unions' exclusion of blacks, both movements targeted historically white unions and shared a language of workplace “rights.” Conservative “right to work” activists adopted the tactics of the civil rights movement and aligned themselves with blacks against exclusionary unions. Although this strategy failed to attract African Americans, it called attention to unions' historic and ongoing racism in a way that eventually divided the labor–liberal coalition. This dynamic is key to understanding the National Association of Manufacturers' complicated support for civil rights, equal opportunity, and affirmative action.

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