Heartland Blues

Labor Rights in the Industrial Midwest

Marc Dixon (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College)

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Oxford University Press Inc
21 January 2021

Sociology; Sociology: work & labour; Political structure & processes; Industrial relations & safety; Trade unions

The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's emaciated state.

In Heartland Blues, Marc Dixon provides a new perspective on union decline by revisiting the labor movement at its historical peak in the late 1950s. Drawing on social movement theories and archival materials, he analyzes campaigns over key labor policies as they were waged in the heavily unionized states of Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin-the very same states at the center of more recent battles over labor rights. He shows how many of the key ingredients necessary for less powerful groups to succeed, including effective organization and influential political allies, were not a given for labor at the time, but instead varied in important ways across the industrial heartland. Thus, the labor movement's social and political isolation and their limited responses to employer mobilization became a death knell in the ensuing decades, as unions sought organizational and legislative remedies to industrial decline and the rising anti-union tide.

Showing how labor rights have been challenged in significant ways in the industrial Midwest in the 1950s, Heartland Blues both identifies enduring problems for labor and forces scholars to look beyond size when seeking clues to labor's failures and successes.

By: Marc Dixon (Professor of Sociology Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 157mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780190917036
ISBN 10: 0190917032
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 21 January 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures and Tables Preface 1. Back to the Future 2. The Capital-Labor Accord in Action 3. Union Discord in Indiana 4. Flipping the Script in Ohio 5. The Insider Route in Wisconsin 6. A Holding Pattern in the Midwest 7. Labor Rights in the Era of Union Decline Bibliography Notes

Marc Dixon is Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College, where he serves as chair. Prior to this he was a member of the faculty at Florida State University. He has published in the top sociology and interdisciplinary journals including American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology; Social Forces; Social Problems; Journal of Policy History, Mobilization, and Social Movement Studies; and Work and Occupations. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has received awards from the American Sociological Association's sections on Labor and Labor Movements and Collective Behavior and Social Movements.

Reviews for Heartland Blues: Labor Rights in the Industrial Midwest

Marc Dixon's excellent Heartland Blues goes beyond existing labor scholarship on the 1950s to examine the dimensions of labor's weakness in its geographic and sectoral areas of greatest strength ... this is an important book * Steven H. Lopez, American Journal of Sociology *