Title Strikebreaking & intimidation : mercenaries and masculinity in twentieth-century America / Stephen H. Norwood

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations Series Gender and American Culture Gender & American culture. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Strikebreakers -- United States -- History -- 20th century Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History -- 20th century Strikebreakers -- Recruiting -- United States -- History -- 20th century Machismo -- United States -- History -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. Machismo Strikebreakers Strikes and lockouts United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2001059763 ISBN 9780807827055 0807827053 0807860468 9780807860465 9798890875563

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