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The Violence of Work
New Essays in Canadian and US Labour History
Jeremy Milloy (Edited by), Joan Sangster (Edited by)
9781487523435
Paperback / softback, published 24 November 2020
208 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.3 kg
"I applaud the editors’ decision to take the long-view and bring this history right up to the present time. One gets a strong sense here of the continuity in violence." "The contributors’ examples of violence are heart-rending, convincing, and extremely diverse."
From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work. This collection of essays highlights the many different forms and expressions of violence that have arisen under capitalism in the last two hundred years, as well as how historians of working-class life and labour have understood violence. The editors draw together diverse case studies, integrating analysis of class, age, gender, sexuality, and race into the scholarship. Essays span the United States and Canadian border, exploring gender violence, sexual harassment, the violent kidnapping of union organizers, the violence of inadequate health and safety protections, the culture of violence in state institutions, the mythology of working-class violence, and the changing nature of violence in extractive industries. The Violence of Work theorizes and historicizes violence as an integral part of working life, making it possible to understand the full scope and causes of workplace violence over time.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Accounting for Violence 1. The Perils of Sex Work in Montreal: Seeking Security and Justice in the Face of Violence, 1810–1842 2. The Rules of Discipline: Workers and the Culture of Violence in Progressive-Era Reform Schools 3. The "New Solution": Anti-Labour Kidnapping, D.B. McKay, and the Legacy of the Second Seminole War 4. Billy Gohl: Labour, Violence, and Myth in the Early Twentieth-Century Pacific Northwest 5. Slow Violence and Hidden Injuries: The Work of Strip Mining in the American West 6. The Murder of Lori Dupont: Violence, Harassment, and Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario 7. "By the Numbers": Workers’ Compensation and the (Further) Conventionalization of Workplace Violence 8. Gender Violence in the Hospitality Industry: Panic Buttons, Pants, and Protest Contributors
Jeremy Milloy
Mary Ann Poutanen
James Schmidt
Chad Pearson
Aaron Goings
Ryan Driskell Tate
Sarah Jessup
Robert Storey
Emily E. LB. Twarog