The great industrial war : framing class conflict in the media, 1865-1950 / Troy Rondinone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rondinone, Troy, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor disputes--United States--History.

Labor disputes.

Social conflict--United States--History.

Social conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Great Industrial War, a comprehensive assessment of how class has been interpreted by the media in American history, documents the rise and fall of a frightening concept: industrial war. Moving beyond the standard account of labor conflict as struggles between workers and management, Troy Rondinone asks why Americans viewed big strikes as "battles" in "irrepressible conflict" between the armies of capital and laborùa terrifying clash between workers, strikebreakers, police, and soldiers. Examining how the mainstream press along with the writings of a select group of influential reformers and politicians framed strike news, Rondinone argues that the Civil War, coming on the cusp of a revolution in industrial productivity, offered a gruesome, indelible model for national conflict. He follows the heated discourse on class war through the nineteenth century until its general dissipation in the mid-twentieth century. Incorporating labor history, cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociology, The Great Industrial War explores the influence of historical experience on popular perceptions of social order and class conflict and provides a reinterpretation of the origins and meaning of the Taft-Hartley Act and the industrial relations regime it supported.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: A Question of the Age

1. With Colors Flying: Strikes in Antebellum America

2. Drifting toward Industrial War: The Great Strike of 1877 and the Coming of a New Era

3. The March of Organized Forces: Framing the Industrial War, 1880–1894

4. The Emergence of the “Great Third Class”: The “People” and the Search for an Industrial Treaty

5. The Fist of the State in the Public Glove: Federal Intervention in the Early Twentieth Century

6. Co-opting the Combatants: Pluralism on the Front Lines

7. A Kind of Peace: The Advent of Taft-Hartley

Conclusion: The End of Class Conflict?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-38304-7

9786613383044

0-8135-4811-X

OCLC:

775441364