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Policing a class society : the experience of American cities 1865-1915 / Sidney L. Harring.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harring, Sidney L., 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--United States--History--19th century.
- Police.
- Social classes--United States--History--19th century.
- Social classes.
- Social conflict--United States--History--19th century.
- Social conflict.
- Cities and towns--United States--History--19th century.
- Cities and towns.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 301 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition with new introduction.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- Police are popularly understood as the "thin blue line" that "serves and protects" us from violence and crime in the pursuit of justice. In Policing a Class Society, Sidney L. Harring provides an essential corrective to the assumptions that police have always been around, that they are a force for deterring crime, and that they have an interest in the pursuit of justice. Looking at the growth of the urban police forces in northern cities around the turn of the twentieth century, Harring argues that the police protected the interests of manufacturers. Operating almost as hired guns, police disciplined the working class in order to maintain le existing order of capitalist relations Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction 3
- Chapter 2 The Urban Police Institution in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1865-1890 22
- Chapter 3 The Patrol Wagon and Signal System, 1880-1900 49
- Chapter 4 The Buffalo Police, 1865-1900 61
- Chapter 5 The Police as a Class Question in Milwaukee, 1865-1912 81
- Chapter 6 Cops as Strikebreakers 101
- Chapter 7 Liquor and the Saloon Question 149
- Chapter 8 The Crusade Against Dance Halls, Gambling, Spitting, and Other Recreational Behavior 183
- Chapter 9 The Tramp Acts and Repression of Unemployed Workers 201
- Chapter 10 Policing Felony Crime 224
- Chapter 11 Conclusion 247.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in 1983 by Rutgers University Press."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781608468546
- 1608468542
- OCLC:
- 974676523
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