| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture. By Lawrence Richards. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. x, 245 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03271-4.)
In Union-Free America, Lawrence Richards argues, somewhat problematically, that America's anti-union culture is a key reason for the weakness of the American labor movement.	1
Richards's first three chapters provide a general history of American attitudes about unions since the 1860s, drawing from opinion polls as well as media portrayals of unions. Those sources, he acknowledges, might be "focused on middle-class attitudes," but Richards argues that middle-class views of unions are "hegemonic" and that workers accept them (p. 11). Unfortunately for his argument, Richards never discusses exactly why and how workers came to adopt those ideas—in his analysis, hegemony is its own answer, requiring no further explanation or discussion.	. . .

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