Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Subtitle: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780807827055
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Trade unions; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Men's Studies - General; United States - 20th Century; Industrial Sociology; Labor Disputes; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Strikebreakers; History: American; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History / United States / 20th Century; United States; 20th century; History; Recruiting; Strikes and lockouts
First sentence: In March 1905 Columbia University students deserted their classes en masse to help break a strike of subway workers against the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the biggest strike New York had ever experienced.