Chad Pearson
Chad Pearson

author
Chad Pearson is professor at University of  North Texas<em>. His work includes Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century</em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2022) and <em>Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement</em> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
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Doing the Employer’s Dirty Work?: Thinking about the History of Anti-Unionism from “Below” after the UAW’s Defeat in Chattanooga

Historians should think carefully as they ponder the meaning of the UAW defeat in Chattanooga. Some analysts write as though a full-fledged co-determination

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Volkswagen, Chattanooga and the Long History of Union Avoidance

A number of Tennessee’s politicians and business leaders are baffled and frustrated that autoworkers at Chattanooga’s sizable, $1 billon Volkswagen plant may force

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Beyond the Right: Anti-Unionism and Reform

A clear-eyed assessment of current attacks against organized labor reveal that the “right”—the Republican Party and its electoral, financial, and ideological supporters—is not

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