Loading…
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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2002.
|
| Series: | Gender & American culture.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.