Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60

by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf

The post-World War II years in the United States were marked by the business community's efforts to discredit New Deal liberalism and undermine the power and legitimacy of organized labor. In Selling Free Enterprise, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf describes how conservative business leaders strove to reorient workers away from their loyalties to organized labor and government, teaching that prosperity could be achieved through reliance on individual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252064399
• ISBN13: 9780252064395
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Important contribution to understanding the US

This book was recently strongly endorsed by Noam Chomsky and for good reason. There is an extreme scarcity of books that address the mechanics of propaganda in the US. For people interested in the details of how the US became the most propagandized society on earth, this book is an invaluable resource.

Corporate Power

A wonderful and well researched study of the origins of corporate power in America. It began with the Big Business reaction towards the gains made by the American labor movement in the 30s with the FLSA. That reaction was embodied in the most anti-labor law passed in the history of America, the 1947 Taft/Hartley Law. This is a must read for all labor activists out there. The book goes into the strategies and propaganda used then to sway the American people against organized labor. Many of the strategies of the past are still used today by American Business and this book will help you recognize them, answer them and effectively rebut them.