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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788368403321

Autore

Rondinone Troy <1973->

Titolo

The great industrial war [[electronic resource] ] : framing class conflict in the media, 1865-1950 / / Troy Rondinone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-38304-7

9786613383044

0-8135-4811-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

305.50973/09041

Soggetti

Labor disputes - United States - History

Social conflict - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: A Question of the Age -- 1. With Colors Flying: Strikes in Antebellum America -- 2. Drifting toward Industrial War: The Great Strike of 1877 and the Coming of a New Era -- 3. The March of Organized Forces: Framing the Industrial War, 1880–1894 -- 4. The Emergence of the “Great Third Class”: The “People” and the Search for an Industrial Treaty -- 5. The Fist of the State in the Public Glove: Federal Intervention in the Early Twentieth Century -- 6. Co-opting the Combatants: Pluralism on the Front Lines -- 7. A Kind of Peace: The Advent of Taft-Hartley -- Conclusion: The End of Class Conflict? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Great Industrial War, a comprehensive assessment of how class has been interpreted by the media in American history, documents the rise and fall of a frightening concept: industrial war. Moving beyond the standard account of labor conflict as struggles between workers and management, Troy Rondinone asks why Americans viewed big strikes as "battles" in "irrepressible conflict" between the armies of capital and laborùa terrifying clash between workers, strikebreakers, police, and soldiers. Examining how the mainstream press along with the writings of a select group of influential reformers and politicians framed strike



news, Rondinone argues that the Civil War, coming on the cusp of a revolution in industrial productivity, offered a gruesome, indelible model for national conflict. He follows the heated discourse on class war through the nineteenth century until its general dissipation in the mid-twentieth century. Incorporating labor history, cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociology, The Great Industrial War explores the influence of historical experience on popular perceptions of social order and class conflict and provides a reinterpretation of the origins and meaning of the Taft-Hartley Act and the industrial relations regime it supported.