Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930: In Defence of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780367701178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str.

Millan, Matteo

Opis

This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilization, 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.

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Preface. Coercion at Work, Violence in Politics: What Changed Between 1890 and 1930?  1. Introduction. Strikebreaking and Industrial Vigilantism as an Historical Problem  Part 1: Institutional Responses  2. Policies and Practices against Labour Movement in the Late Russian Empire  3. Violence Against Strikers in the Rural Peripheries of the Iberian Peninsula, 1890s-1915  4. The Swedish Labour Market c. 1870–1914: A Labour Market Regime without Repression?  5. State Authorities, Municipal Forces, and Military Intervention in the Policing of Strikes in Austria-Hungary, 1890s-1914  6. Employers of the World, Unite! The Transnational Mobilization of Industrialists Around World War One  Part 2: Strikebreaking Tactics and Practices  7. Anti-labour Repression in the in-between Spaces of Empire: The Compagnie des Messageries maritimes and the Steamship Workers of the ‘China Line’ (1900-1920)  8. In the Name of Constitutionalism and Islam: The Murky World of Labour Politics in Calcutta’s Docklands  9. Cairo, Athens, Salonica. Strikebreaking and Anti-Labour Practices of Employers and the State in the Early-Twentieth-Century Cigarette Industry  10. In Reaction to Revolution: Anti-Strike Mentalities and Practices in the Russian Radical Right, 1905-14  11. “We Can Kill Striking Workers without Being Prosecuted.” Armed Bands of Strikebreakers in late Imperial Germany  Part 3: Civic and Industrial Vigilantism  12. The Wild West of Employer Anti-Unionism: The Glorification of Vigilantism and Individualism in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States  13. Vigilant Citizens: the Case of the Volunteer Police Force, 1911-1914  14. From “State Protection” to “Private Defence”. Strikebreaking, Civilian Armed Mobilisation and the Rise of Italian Fascism  15. Conclusions. Strikebreaking and the Fault-Lines of Mass Society, 1880-1930