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`WE CAN STAY UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER': Strike Control and the State Police in New York, 1919-1923.

Authors :
Ray, Gerda W.
Source :
Labor History; Summer95, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p403-425, 23p
Publication Year :
1995

Abstract

Focuses on the New York police's control of strikes as an important development in the changing role of the state in labor relations. Claims by police historians that state police was created as an element of working class repression; State police's replacement of the military in handling strikes; Decentralization of authority to call out the New York Guard during strikes.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0023656X
Volume :
36
Issue :
3
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Labor History
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
9510232795
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/00236569512331385523