Strikebreaking and Intimidation

by Norwood, Stephen H.

• ISBN13: 9780807827055
• ISBN10: 0807827053
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

In the first systematic study of anti-unionism and strikebreaking in the U.S., Norwood traces the history of violence between strikers and the mercenary forces (whose diverse ranks included college students, African Americans, the unemployed, and organized crime associates) called in by corporations to break strikes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: The Emergence of the Anti-Labor Mercenary	1	(14)
The Student as Stikebreaker: College Youth and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century	15	(19)
Gunfighters on the Urban Frontier: Strikebreakers in the Car Wars	34	(44)
Forging a New Masculinity: African American Strikebreaking in the North in the Early Twentieth Century	78	(36)
Cossacks of the Coal Fields: Corporate Mercenaries in the Mine Wars	114	(57)
Ford's Brass Knuckles: Harry Bennett, the Cult of Muscularity, and Anti-Labor Terror, 1920--1945	171	(23)
They Shall Not Pass: Paramilitary Combat against Strikebreaking in the Auto Industry, 1933--1939	194	(34)
Epilogue: Anti-Unionism in America, 1945--2000	228	(21)
Notes	249	(52)
Bibliography	301	(20)
Index	321