Overview

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.

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Author:   Jeremy Milloy ,  Joan Sangster
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781487523435

ISBN 10:   1487523432
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   24 November 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Accounting for Violence Jeremy Milloy 1. The Perils of Sex Work in Montreal: Seeking Security and Justice in the Face of Violence, 1810–1842 Mary Ann Poutanen 2. The Rules of Discipline: Workers and the Culture of Violence in Progressive-Era Reform Schools James Schmidt 3. The “New Solution”: Anti-Labour Kidnapping, D.B. McKay, and the Legacy of the Second Seminole War Chad Pearson 4. Billy Gohl: Labour, Violence, and Myth in the Early Twentieth-Century Pacific Northwest Aaron Goings 5. Slow Violence and Hidden Injuries: The Work of Strip Mining in the American West Ryan Driskell Tate 6. The Murder of Lori Dupont: Violence, Harassment, and Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario Sarah Jessup 7. ""By the Numbers"": Workers’ Compensation and the (Further) Conventionalization of Workplace Violence Robert Storey 8. Gender Violence in the Hospitality Industry: Panic Buttons, Pants, and Protest Emily E. LB. Twarog Contributors"

Reviews

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. -- Steven High, Concordia University * <em>Labour/Le Travail</em> *

The Violence of Work is a unique collection of essays. Its thematic organizing principles and inclusion of recent and relevant events in both US and Canadian societies represent a strong contribution to the field. - James Barrett, Department of History, University of Illinois In analysing the connections between gender, work, and violence and the everyday violence used and experienced by workers on the job, Jeremy Milloy and Joan Sangster have made a valuable contribution to the field. The scholarship is sound and contemporary, and this excellent collection adds an especially timely analysis to sexual harassment during the current #MeToo movement. - Thomas Alter II, Department of History, Texas State University

""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."" -- Steven High, Concordia University * <em>Labour/Le Travail</em> * ""The contributors’ examples of violence are heart-rending, convincing, and extremely diverse."" -- James Naylor, Brandon University * <em>Histoire sociale / Social History</em> *

Author Information

Jeremy Milloy is the W.P. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. Joan Sangster is a Vanier Professor Emeritus at Trent University.

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