Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-320) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the emergence of the anti-labor mercenary -- The student as strikebreaker : college youth and the crisis of masculinity in the early twentieth century -- Gunfighters on the urban frontier : strikebreakers in the car wars -- Forging a new masculinity : African American strikebreaking in the North in the early twentieth century -- Cossacks of the coal fields : corporate mercenaries in the mine wars -- Ford's brass knuckles : Harry Bennett, the cult of muscularity, and anti-labor terror, 1920-1945 -- They shall not pass : paramilitary combat against strikebreaking in the auto industry, 1933-1939 -- Epilogue : anti-unionism in America, 1945-2000.