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Strikebreaking and Intimidation - Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback, New edition)
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Strikebreaking and Intimidation - Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback, New edition)
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This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation,
and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a
full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century.
Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil
liberties allowed corporations to assemble private armies to
disrupt union organizing, spy on workers, and break strikes. Using
a social-historical approach, Stephen Norwood focuses on the
mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts -
particularly college students, African American men, the
unemployed, and men associated with organized crime. Norwood also
considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter
mercenary violence. The book covers a wide range of industries
across much of the country. Norwood explores how the early
twentieth-century crisis of masculinity shaped strikebreaking's
appeal to elite youth and the media's romanticization of the
strikebreaker as a new soldier of fortune. He examines how mining
communities' perception of mercenaries as agents of a ribald,
sexually unrestrained, new urban culture intensified labor
conflict. The book traces the ways in which economic restructuring,
as well as shifting attitudes toward masculinity and anger,
transformed corporate anti-unionism from World War II to the
present.
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