| Physical description |
1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Gender and American Culture |
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Gender & American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Language notes |
English. |
| Subject |
Strikebreakers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Strikebreakers -- Recruiting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Machismo -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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History |
| Variant Title |
Strikebreaking and intimidation |
| ISBN |
9780807827055 (alk. paper) |
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0807827053 (alk. paper) |
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0807860468 (electronic bk.) |
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9780807860465 (electronic bk.) |
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9798890875563 (electronic bk.) |
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0807827053 (alk. paper) |
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0807853739 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780807853733 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard Number |
ebc413377 |
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