From blackjacks to briefcases: a history of commercialized strikebreaking and unionbusting in the United States
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-172) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 179 p. ill. : 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0821414658 0821414666 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Foreword by Scott Molloy xi
Introduction xiii
1
The Business Community s Mercenaries
The Era of Privately Paid Police 3
2
Armies of Strikebreakers for Hire 39
3
Spies, Propagandists, Missionaries, and Hookers
The Era of Industrial Espionage 75
4
The Unionbusting Industry since the Wagner Act 97
Epilogue 119
Notes 131
Bibliography 157
Index 173
ILLUSTRATIONS
1.1 Allan Pinkerton 5
1.2 Pinkerton guards standing watch 9
1.3 McCormick Harvester Works strike violence 10
1.4 Pinkerton barges land at Homestead 15
1.5 Pittsburgh Post reports on Homestead battle 16
1.6 Homestead troubles a national issue 18
1.7 Thomas L. Felts 23
1.8 Baldwin Felts guards 24
1.9 Baldwin Felts men surrounding machine gun 25
1.10 Baldwin Felts men killed or wounded during 1912 13
strike 28
1.11 Death Special 30
1.12 Baldwin Felts men killed at Matewan 33
1.13 Main Street, Matewan, West Virginia 34
1.14 SidHatfield 36
2.1 James A. Farley, 1905 43
2.2 Front page report of subway accident caused by
strikebreaker 47
2.3 Frank Curry 49
2.4 James A. Farley s mansion 51
2.5 Injured strikebreaker 53
Illustrations
2.6 Pearl L. Bergoff, 1909 57
2.7 James Waddell 64
2.8 Standard Oil strike violence 65
2.9 Kansas City Star reports on the Kansas City Streetcar
Strike 6j
2.10 Pearl L. Bergoff, early 1930s 69
2.11 Looking for work at Bergoff s office 70
3.1 Allan Pinkerton j6
3.2 Pinkerton National Detective Agency letterhead 77
3.3 Spy #5 81
3.4 Burns ad 83
3.5 Marshall contract 84
3.6 Marshall invoice 85
3.7 La Follette Senate hearings 93
3.8 United Mine Workers of America Journal espionage
cartoon 94
4.1 Nathan W. Shefferman 101
4.2 Senator John McClellan 103
4.3 West Coast Industrial Relations Associates flyer 106 7
4.4 Advanced Management Research ad 110 11
4.5 Masthead from Report on Union Busters 116
Epil.l Vance guards during the Detroit Newspaper Strike 121
Epil.2 Charles Vance 123
Epil.3 Sniper employed by Vance International 124
Epil.4 Vance photographers at Pittston strike 126
Epil.5 Special Response Corporation advertisement 129
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