Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States

This book explores the political economy of labor repression and expands the meaning of repression by looking at the relation of politics to economics throughout the course of US history. It explains how and why this relation leads to the repression of labor and considers how it develops over time from the social relation of capital and labor.

Andrew Kolin

Introduction Chapter One: The State and the Economy after the American Revolution Chapter Two: Inclusion-Exclusion and the Growth of American Capitalism Chapter Three: The Working Class on the Defensive: Response to Workplace Exclusion Chapter Four: Political Repression at the Workplace Chapter Five: Post WWI to the Depression Chapter Six: The Depression and Labor Repression Chapter Seven: The Labor Anti-Communism Backlash Chapter Eight: Capital and Labor during WWII Chapter Nine: Domestic Cold War Politics and Labor Repression Chapter Ten: Economic Downturns and Labor Repression from the 1970s Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: What's Next? Bibliography