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dc.contributor.editorMillan, Matteo
dc.contributor.editorSaluppo, Alessandro
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-15T11:03:50Z
dc.date.available2020-12-15T11:03:50Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20201215_9781000342390_6
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43320
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Modern History
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americasen_US
dc.subject.otherArmed Associations
dc.subject.otherAustria-Hungary
dc.subject.otherCzarism
dc.subject.otherDublin Lockout
dc.subject.otherGeoff Eley
dc.subject.otherIberian Peninsula
dc.subject.otherIndustrial vigilantism
dc.subject.otherProto-Fascism
dc.subject.otherRussian Empire
dc.subject.otherThe Dark Side of the Belle Époque
dc.subject.otherTsarism
dc.titleCorporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930
dc.title.alternativeIn Defence of Freedom
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429354243
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages298


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