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From blackjacks to briefcases : a history of commercialized strikebreaking and unionbusting in the United States
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From blackjacks to briefcases : a history of commercialized strikebreaking and unionbusting in the United States

Auteur : Robert Michael Smith
Éditeur : Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2003.
Édition/format :   Livre : AnglaisVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
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Publisher's description: From the beginning of the Industrial Age and continuing into the twenty-first century, companies faced with militant workers and organizers have often turned to agencies that specialized in ending strikes and breaking unions. Although their secretive nature has made it difficult to fully explore the history of this industry, From Blackjacks to Briefcases does just that. By digging through  Lire la suite...
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Format physique additionnel : Online version:
Smith, Robert Michael, 1955-
From blackjacks to briefcases.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2003
(OCoLC)608910167
Format : Livre
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Robert Michael Smith
ISBN : 0821414658 9780821414651 0821414666 9780821414668
Numéro OCLC : 50494531
Description : xviii, 179 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contenu : The business community's mercenaries : The era of privately paid police --
Armies of strikebreakers for hire --
Spies, propagandists, missionaries, and hookers : The era of industrial espionage --
The unionbusting industry since the Wagner Act.
Responsabilité : Robert Michael Smith with a foreword by Scott Molloy.
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Publisher's description: From the beginning of the Industrial Age and continuing into the twenty-first century, companies faced with militant workers and organizers have often turned to agencies that specialized in ending strikes and breaking unions. Although their secretive nature has made it difficult to fully explore the history of this industry, From Blackjacks to Briefcases does just that. By digging through subpoenaed documents of strike-bound companies, their mercenaries, and the testimony of executive officers and rank-and-file strikebreakers, Robert Smith examines the inner workings of the antiunion industry. In a clear and lively style, he brings to life the violent armed guards employed on the picket line or in the coal camps; the ruffians who filled the armies marshaled by the "King of the Strikebreakers", Pearl Bergoff; the labor spies who wrecked countless unions; and, after the Wagner Act, those who manipulated national labor law to serve their clients. In From Blackjacks to Briefcases, Smith follows the history of this ongoing struggle and tells a compelling story that parallels the history of the United States over the last century and a half.

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