"A Dilatory Stratagem": Taft-Hartley, American Enka, and the Defeat of Organized Labor in the Postwar South

IF 0.3 Q4 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Jennifer Brooks
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Abstract:"A Dilatory Stratagem" argues that the national Taft-Hartley Act (1947) emboldened southern employers to use permanent replacement hiring to undermine organized labor and eradicate union locals soon after World War II. Extensive archival research in union records, government documents, and newspapers, as well as oral history interviews conducted with former employees, tells the story of the 1950 strike at the American Enka Rayon plant in Morristown, Tennessee. Although largely unknown, the Enka strike became the subject of national congressional hearings and demonstrated the importance of permanent replacement hiring in management's anti-union toolbox well before the 1970s.
“拖延策略”:塔夫脱-哈特利、美国恩卡和战后南方劳工组织的失败
摘要:《拖延战略》认为,二战后不久,美国的《塔夫脱-哈特利法案》(1947年)鼓励南方雇主使用永久性替代招聘来削弱有组织的劳工,并消灭当地的工会。对工会记录、政府文件和报纸的大量档案研究,以及对前雇员进行的口述历史采访,讲述了1950年田纳西州莫里斯敦美国恩卡拉阳工厂罢工的故事。尽管在很大程度上不为人知,但恩卡罢工成为了全国国会听证会的主题,并在20世纪70年代之前就证明了永久性替代招聘在管理层反工会工具箱中的重要性。
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