Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930

Matteo Millan is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Padova, Italy. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Oxford and Dublin. In 2015, he obtained a major grant from the European Research Council. He has published extensively on Italian fascism and pre-1914 armed associations. Alessandro Saluppo is an ERC post-doctoral researcher at the University of Padua, Italy. His current research is devoted to private industrial policing, strikebreaking and anti-labor violence in the United Kingdom before the First World War.

Preface. Coercion at Work, Violence in Politics: What Changed Between 1890 and 1930? 1. Introduction. Strikebreaking and Industrial Vigilantism as an Historical Problem Part 1: Institutional Responses 2. Policies and Practices against Labour Movement in the Late Russian Empire 3. Violence Against Strikers in the Rural Peripheries of the Iberian Peninsula, 1890s-1915 4. The Swedish Labour Market c. 1870–1914: A Labour Market Regime without Repression? 5. State Authorities, Municipal Forces, and Military Intervention in the Policing of Strikes in Austria-Hungary, 1890s-1914 6. Employers of the World, Unite! The Transnational Mobilization of Industrialists Around World War One Part 2: Strikebreaking Tactics and Practices 7. Anti-labour Repression in the in-between Spaces of Empire: The Compagnie des Messageries maritimes and the Steamship Workers of the ‘China Line’ (1900-1920) 8. In the Name of Constitutionalism and Islam: The Murky World of Labour Politics in Calcutta’s Docklands 9. Cairo, Athens, Salonica. Strikebreaking and Anti-Labour Practices of Employers and the State in the Early-Twentieth-Century Cigarette Industry 10. In Reaction to Revolution: Anti-Strike Mentalities and Practices in the Russian Radical Right, 1905-14 11. “We Can Kill Striking Workers without Being Prosecuted.” Armed Bands of Strikebreakers in late Imperial Germany Part 3: Civic and Industrial Vigilantism 12. The Wild West of Employer Anti-Unionism: The Glorification of Vigilantism and Individualism in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States 13. Vigilant Citizens: the Case of the Volunteer Police Force, 1911-1914 14. From “State Protection” to “Private Defence”. Strikebreaking, Civilian Armed Mobilisation and the Rise of Italian Fascism 15. Conclusions. Strikebreaking and the Fault-Lines of Mass Society, 1880-1930