Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930 : In Defence of Freedom

This 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 retrace...

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Other Authors: Millan, Matteo (Editor), Saluppo, Alessandro (Editor)
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
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