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Capital's Terrorists - Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Capital's Terrorists - Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to
control ordinary people as they sought to secure power in and out
of workplaces. In the face of worker resistance, employers and
their allies collaborated to use a variety of extralegal repressive
techniques, including whippings, kidnappings, drive-out campaigns,
incarcerations, arsons, hangings, and shootings, as well as less
overtly illegal tactics such as shutting down meetings, barring
speakers from lecturing through blacklists, and book burning. This
book draws together the groups engaged in this kind of violence,
reimagining the original Ku Klux Klan, various Law and Order
Leagues, Stockgrowers' organizations, and Citizens' Alliances as
employers' associations driven by unambiguous economic and
managerial interests. Though usually discussed separately, all of
these groups used similar language to tar their lower-class
challengers-former slaves, rustlers, homesteaders of modest means,
populists, political radicals, and striking workers-as menacing
villains and deployed comparable tactics to suppress them. And
perhaps most notably, spokespersons for these respective
organizations justified their actions by insisting that they were
committed to upholding "law and order." Ultimately, this book
suggests that the birth of law and order politics as we know it can
be found in nineteenth-century campaigns of organized terror
against an assortment of ordinary people across racial lines
conducted by Klansmen, lawmen, vigilantes, and union busters.
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