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You might want to start with Elizabeth Faue's fine piece of scholarship on MIchigan: "'Methods of Mysticism' and Industrial Order: Labor Law in Michigan, 1868 - 1940" in THE HISTORY OF MICHIGAN LAW edited by Paul FInkelman and Martin J. Hershock (Ohio University Press, 2006). The book is part of the Press's series (Law, Society and Politics in the Midwest) that also includes histories of state law in Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska (though I have not seen the contents to say that they cover state labor laws). I would also point you to the legal history of state level anti-IWW "Criminal Syndicalism" statutes (though they were used more broadly until they were struck down for good in an Ohio KKK case). The essential cite on these is Eldridge Foster Dowell's A HISTORY OF CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series 57, No. 1, 1939). John P. Beck Labor Education Program Michigan State University
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