Blood, sweat, and fear : violence at work in the north American auto industry 1960-80

Author

Jeremy Milloy

Call Number

• H 363.32 M656 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

Physical Description

x, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"Going postal. We hear the chilling phrase and think of the rogue employee who snaps. But Blood, Sweat, and Fear shows that on-the-job bloodshed never occurs in isolation. Using violence as a lens, Jeremy Milloy provides fresh insights into the everyday workings of capitalism, class conflict, race, and gender in the United States and Canada. The result is a study that reveals the workplace as a battleground--one that saw a late-century paradigm shift from the collective violence of strikes and riots to the individualized violence of assaults and shootings. Explosive and original, Blood, Sweat, and Fear brings historical perspective to contemporary debates about North American workplace violence."--Publisher's description

Contents

• Dripping with blood and dirt: confronting the history of workplace violence under capitalism
• Fights and knifings are becoming quite commonplace: Dodge Main, 1965-80
• The ways boys and men took care of business: Windsor Chrysler Plants
• The constant companion of all that earn their living here: workers, unions, and management respond
• Chrysler pulled the trigger: the courts and the press
• Out of the back streets and into the workplace: the discovery of workplace violence in the 1980s and 1990s.