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Table of Contents

Introduction
1    With Colors Flying
2    "Drifting toward Industrial War"
3    The March of Organized Forces
4    The Emergence of the "Great Third Class" and the Search for an Industrial Treaty
5    The Fist of the State in the Public Glove
6    Co-opting the Combatants
7    A Kind of Peace
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography





The Great Industrial War
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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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