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Probing the Limits of Rights Discourse in the Obama Era: A Crossroads for Labor and Liberalism

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In the August 8, 2008, edition of the Wall Street Journal, an editorial denounced the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), organized labor's most recent effort to reform US labor law, as a measure that would lead to worker intimidation and the end of free and fair workplace representation elections. That the nation's leading business journal carried an editorial outlining the familiar EFCA opponent's trope of worker intimidation by unions was not surprising. That the author's identity was former South Dakota senator George McGovern—that aging icon of American liberalism and a self-described “longtime friend of labor unions†—foreshadowed the uphill battle and ultimate defeat labor and its allies would face in enacting the measure.

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  • McCartin, Joseph A., 2011. "Probing the Limits of Rights Discourse in the Obama Era: A Crossroads for Labor and Liberalism," International Labor and Working-Class History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 80(1), pages 148-160, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ilawch:v:80:y:2011:i:01:p:148-160_00
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