Chad Pearson on Klansmen, Employer Vigilantes, and Labor Suppression in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chad Pearson on Klansmen, Employer Vigilantes, and Labor Suppression in the Long Nineteenth Century

This month's episode takes listeners back in time to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time of significant labor unrest. At the time, employers, often with government support, went to great lengths to put down dissent, including employing violent tactics such as whippings, kidnappings, shootings, and imprisonment. Among those that helped to spear-head this violent suppression of workers and their allies were groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Law & Order Leagues, and Citizens Alliances. Though usually discussed separately, all of these groups used similar language to tar their lower-class challengers as menacing villains and deployed comparable tactics to suppress them. Calling into question a narrative of business management in this period centered on the adoption of scientific management principles and welfare capitalism, Pearson illuminates the repressive, and often terrifying, tactics undergirding industrial-labor relations at the turn of the 20th century.

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Eileen Boris on the Construct of the Woman Worker

Eileen Boris on the Construct of the Woman Worker

Eileen Boris on the Construct of the Woman Worker What is work? Who are workers? Which activities are considered work, and which ones are excluded? These questions are some of the most critical questi...

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Adom Getachew on Anti-colonial Worldmaking

Adom Getachew on Anti-colonial Worldmaking

Students in U.S. history surveys come away from their lessons on World War I with one conflict fresh in their minds: How could Woodrow Wilson, a president who advocated segregation and famously screen...

9 Loka 201953min

Nan Enstad on Multinational Cigarette Corporations and Jim Crow Capitalism

Nan Enstad on Multinational Cigarette Corporations and Jim Crow Capitalism

Nan Enstad on Multinational Cigarette Corporations and Jim Crow Capitalism The multinational corporation is a pervasive institution. For example, it's nearly impossible to listen to this show withou...

6 Syys 201959min

Episode 58: Chris Dietrich on the Energy Crisis and the Anticolonial Elite

Episode 58: Chris Dietrich on the Energy Crisis and the Anticolonial Elite

When we talk about the 1973 energy crisis, we tend to cast it as a moment when Americans questioned assumptions about how the domestic economy worked and the U.S. role in the global economy. We don't ...

1 Elo 201939min

Liz Montegary on the Political Economy of LGBT Families

Liz Montegary on the Political Economy of LGBT Families

We've just ended pride month and both the victories and limits of GLBT politics were on view. In San Francisco, protesters engaged in civil disobedience action against the growing corporatization of p...

3 Heinä 201958min

Peter Cole on the Power of Dockworkers

Peter Cole on the Power of Dockworkers

We talk a lot about logistics on this show – the industries, like Amazon or FedEx, that have made fortunes managing the movement of goods from one place to another. Logistics companies undergird the g...

7 Touko 201946min

Bernice Yeung on The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers

Bernice Yeung on The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers

The Me Too movement has brought much needed attention to sexual violence and harassment both in and outside the workplace. It has challenged patriarchal norms and practices and illuminated entrenched ...

13 Huhti 201953min

Juan De Lara on Logistics and Urban Space

Juan De Lara on Logistics and Urban Space

Amazon's withdrawal from New York City has sparked big conversations about companies' impact on urban space, but less attention has been paid to the fact that, as logistics companies, corporations lik...

6 Maalis 201940min

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