Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60 — Making Common Sense
How does a contested political idea become familiar enough to feel like common sense?
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In Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf examines the postwar struggle between American business and organized labor over the meaning of economic freedom, political authority, and the American way.
Fones-Wolf argues that business leaders did more than lobby government. Corporations and business associations built extensive systems of communication and economic…
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