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The Employee examines how American businesses dominated and influenced labor law as they pushed for an ever-narrower definition of "employee" and maneuvered to exclude workers from the right to organize.

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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- I. The Conservative Search for Social Harmony -- Chapter 1. Unions, Modernity, and the Decline of American Economic Nationalism --...

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