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

Author/creator Norwood, Stephen H.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
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.

Variant title Strikebreaking and intimidation
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-320) and index.
LCCN 2001059763
ISBN0807827053 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807853739 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HD5324 .N67 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold