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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norwood, Stephen H. (Stephen Harlan), 1951-

Series:

Gender and American Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strikebreakers--United States--History--20th century.

Strikebreakers.

Strikes and lockouts--United States--History--20th century.

Strikes and lockouts.

Strikebreakers--Recruiting--United States--History--20th century.

Machismo--United States--History--20th century.

Machismo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Strikebreaking and intimidation

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Emergence of the Anti-Labor Mercenary; 1. The Student as Strikebreaker; 2. Gunfighters on the Urban Frontier; 3. Forging a New Masculinity; 4. Cossacks of the Coal Fields; 5. Ford's Brass Knuckles; 6. They Shall Not Pass; Epilogue: Anti-Unionism in America, 1945-2000; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-320) and index.

ISBN:

9798890875563

9780807860465

0807860468

OCLC:

476237228