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Strikebreaking & intimidation : mercenaries and masculinity in twentieth-century America /
Using a social-historical approach, the author focuses on the mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts and considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter them. The book also traces the economic restructuring which transformed corporate anti-unionism.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Gender & American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The emergence of the anti-labor mercenary
- The student as strikebreaker: College youth and the crisis of masculinity in the early twentieth century
- Gunfighters on the urban frontier: Strikebreakers in the car wars
- Forging a new masculinity: African American strikebreaking in the North in the early twentieth century
- Cossacks of the coal fields: Corporate mercenaries in the mine wars
- Ford's brass knuckles: Harry Bennett, the cult of muscularity, and anti-labor terror, 1920-1945
- They shall not pass: Paramilitary combat against strikebreaking in the auto industry, 1933-1939
- Epilogue: anti-unionism in America, 1945-2000.