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Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930 - In Defence of Freedom (Paperback)
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Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930 - In Defence of Freedom (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
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This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of
the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour
mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war
period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the
violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s. It retraces the formation of
an extensive market for corporate policing, privately contracted
security and yellow unionism, as well as processes of
professionalisation in strikebreaking activities, labour espionage
and surveillance. It reconstructs the diverse spectrum of
right-wing patriotic leagues and vigilante corps which, in support
or in competition with law enforcement agencies, sought to counter
the dual dangers of industrial militancy and revolutionary
situations. Although considerable research has been done on the
rise of socialist parties and trade unions the repressive policies
of their opponents have been generally left unexamined. This book
fills this gap by reconstructing the methods and strategies used by
state authorities and employers to counter outbreaks of labour
militancy on a global scale. It adopts a long-term chronology that
sheds light on the shocks and strains that marked industrial
societies during their turbulent transition into mass politics from
the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the
epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of
the 1920s and 1930s. Offering a new angle of vision to examine the
violent transition to mass politics in industrial societies, this
is of great interest to scholars of policing, unionism and striking
in the modern era. The Open Access version of this book, available
at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429354243, has been
made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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