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

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Author:
Norwood, Stephen H (Stephen Harlan) 1951-  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2002
C2002
20th century
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
Topic:
Strikebreakers--History  Search this
Strikes and lockouts--History  Search this
Strikebreakers--Recruiting--History  Search this
Machismo--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_710089