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FROM the beginning of the Industrial Age and continuing into the twenty-first century, companies faced with militant workers and organizers have often turned to agencies that specialized in ending strikes and breaking unions. Although their secretive nature has made it difficult to fully explore the history of this industry, From Blackjacks to Briefcases does just that. By digging through subpoenaed documents of strike-bound companies, their mercenaries, and the testimony of executive officers and rank-and-file strike-breakers, Robert Smith examines the inner workings of the antiunion industry. In a clear and lively style, he brings to life the violent armed guards employed on the picket line or in the coal camps; the ruffians who filled the armies marshaled by the "King of the Strike-breakers," Pearl Bergoff; the labor spies who wrecked countless unions; and, after the Wagner Act, those who manipulated national labor law to serve their clients. In From Blackjacks to Briefcases, Smith follows the history of this ongoing struggle and tells a compelling story that parallels the history of the United States over the last century and a half..
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“West's Encyclopedia of American Law” is 13 volumes and 5,000 entries of comprehensive information on the fascinating American Legal System and its components. Covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law, West’s has been written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the everyday user in mind. Everyone from the layperson hooked on the weekly TV courtroom procedural to the serious student can find such valuable information as brief definitions of legal jargon, exhaustive examinations of courtroom procedure, explanations of complex topics such as civil rights, biographies of standout attorneys, analyses of controversial issues, and transcripts of crucial Supreme Court decisions.

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This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on December 1, 1994. The length of the article is 521 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Career Center of the University of Missouri's School of Journalism was criticized severely for its decision to include Pioneer Press Inc.'s ad recruiting strikebreakers in its telephone job hotline. Officials of the Career Center explained that their job was to promote free speech and not to make political statements. Union members, however, hit the Center for its ignorance of the plight of the labor movement.

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Title: Ads for strikebreakers. (University of Missouri School of Journalism's Career Center criticized for helping Pioneer Press Inc. recruit strikebreakers) (Everywhere)
Author: Benjamin Israel
Publication:St. Louis Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1994
Publisher: SJR St. Louis Journalism Review
Volume: v24 Issue: n172 Page: p3(1)

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