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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on April 10, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(2):411-413; doi:10.1093/es/khp008
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Jeffrey Haydu. Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916

Jeffrey Haydu. Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. x + 268 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4641-2, $39.95 (cloth).

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Jeffrey Haydu has written a well-researched and thought-provoking study of class formation, labor relations, and upper class civic life in Cincinnati and San Francisco during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He describes the key differences between employers in these two cities, drawing distinctions between the open shop (anti-union) policies practiced by Cincinnati's business community and the more accommodationist strategies embraced by San Francisco's businessmen. While employers in Cincinnati challenged the legitimacy of trade unions and strongly opposed collective bargaining, those in San Francisco, responding to a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Chad Pearson

University of Alabama, Huntsville


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