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Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930: In Defence of Freedom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367701178)
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xThis book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, 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.
It retraces the formation of an extensive market for corporate policing, privately contracted security and yellow unionism, as well as processes of professionalisation in strikebreaking activities, labour espionage and surveillance. It reconstructs the diverse spectrum of right-wing patriotic leagues and vigilante corps which, in support or in competition with law enforcement agencies, sought to counter the dual dangers of industrial militancy and revolutionary situations. Although considerable research has been done on the rise of socialist parties and trade unions the repressive policies of their opponents have been generally left unexamined. This book fills this gap by reconstructing the methods and strategies used by state authorities and employers to counter outbreaks of labour militancy on a global scale. It adopts a long-term chronology that sheds light on the shocks and strains that marked industrial societies during their turbulent transition into mass politics 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.
Offering a new angle of vision to examine the violent transition to mass politics in industrial societies, this is of great interest to scholars of policing, unionism and striking in the modern era.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429354243, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author: Matteo Millan
ISBN-10: 0367701170
ISBN-13: 9780367701178
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2022
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
By Matteo Millan
xMatteo Millan is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Padova, Italy. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Oxford and Dublin. In 2015, he obtained a major grant from the European Research Council. He has published extensively on Italian fascism and pre-1914 armed associations.
Alessandro Saluppo is an ERC post-doctoral researcher at the University of Padua, Italy. His current research is devoted to private industrial policing, strikebreaking and anti-labor violence in the United Kingdom before the First World War.
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