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The Great
Industrial War
Price: $45.00
Subtitle: Framing Class
Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950
Author:
Troy Rondinone
Subject: American
Studies, American
History
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4683-4
Pages:
216 pages
Publication Date: December 2009
Praise for The Great Industrial War
"The Great Industrial War
fills a huge gap in the study of news media and history."—Christopher
R. Martin, author of Framed! Labor
and the Corporate Media
Description:
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 labor—a 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.
About the Author:
TROY RONDINONE is an
associate professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University.
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