...Megan Adams In the late twentieth century, rank-and-file members of the Chicago police struggled to organize civil rights and labor protests against the city and police department. Police wives joined them in this effort and, because they were not subject to department rules or discipline, often...

... doc tes and no Using Police Records in Labor History: A Case Study of the Brazilian DOPS Antonio Luigi Negro and Paulo Fontes In May 1960, a note...

...Rebecca Hill © 2011 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2011 “ The Common Enemy Is the Boss and the Inmate”: Police and Prison Guard Unions in New York in the 1970s  – 1980s Rebecca Hill Following the death of radical prisoner activist George Jackson in 1971, Bob...

...Sam Mitrani In the article “Reforming Repression: Labor, Anarchy, and Reform in the Shaping of the Chicago Police Department, 1879-1888,” Sam Mitrani examines the dramatic strengthening of the Chicago Police Department in the 1880s. Beginning in 1879, Mayor Carter Harrison pulled the department...

...Frederick Corney Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd , Hasegawa Tsuyoshi , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 xi + 351 pp., $29.95 (cloth) Copyright © 2019 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2019 Since...

...Randi Storch The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850–1894 . Mitrani Sam . Champaign : University of Illinois Press , 2013 ix + 272 pp. , $50.00 (cloth) © 2015 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2015   148 12.4 LABOR...

...Neville Kirk Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America . Whitaker Reg , Kealey Gregory S. , and Parnaby Andrew . Toronto : Toronto University Press , 2012 viii + 687 pp. , $90.00 (cloth); $36.95 (paper) © 2014 by Labor...

...Michael A. Ross maross@umd.edu The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation . Adam Malka . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2018 . 352 pp.; $39.95 (cloth), $34.95 (paper), $19.99 (ebook). Copyright © 2023 by Labor...

... an eighty-two-day strike when the company, Tenneco Inc., would not honor its obligation to a union contract. The governor's guardsmen met workers on the picket lines and the city police stormed the union hall, beating strikers with abandon. The workforce was half white, half black, and included many women...

... “transnational turn” in immigration scholarship and employing a close reading of an important Italian-language newspaper, Il Lavoratore Italiano ; official Italian consular records and police archives; and previously unused American federal and state prison records, the authors analyze the ways immigrant workers...

.... Instead of a robust set of job-creation programs in urban areas of severe un(der)employment, we see in Hinton’s book police officers actively entrapping petty criminals in order to meet performance expectations. Instead of sustainable, integrated, mixed-income public- housing programs, we are given...

... for the People, 14 . 9 “Police Brutality Review,” The Flatlands, June 5–June 18, 1966. 8 Newton, Revolutionary Suicide, 110 . 7 “Will Watts Secede?” The Movement, July 1966, 1. 6 “Poverty and Poverty Programs in Oakland: Selected Results from the 701 Household Survey of Oakland...

... of the 1,396 women who monitored school crossings around the city, a municipal program under the direction of the Chicago Police Department. “I know my children and there certainly are gobs of them,” she noted. “Sometimes, they seem to crawl out of the cracks of the sidewalk.” 1 From the early 1950s, when...

... in, the use of police force to suppress organized efforts to seek redress for labor grievances. By calling on the police to silence discontent, American advisers reproduced a colonial pattern that was all too familiar to Korean workers. In this context, the official thinking—that the new labor provisions...

... corners to political officials at the police headquarters and the statehouse. In an urban landscape ravaged by poverty and constrained by fiscal austerity, drug dealers and detectives alike confront moral dilemmas arising from their straitened circumstances. How can individuals act ethically...

... to consider the contentious record of commemoration of this signifi cant event. Immediately following the trial in 1886, the Chicago Tribune organized a group of local businessmen to commemorate the event in a gesture of support for the police. It is important to remember that days before the Haymarket...

... denounced the so-called War on Police. It is too soon to tell what impact Trump’s unexpected victory in 2016 will have on law enforcement in black communities, especially in the wake of unrest in places like Ferguson and Baltimore. But the enduring appeal of law and order to white conservatives seems beyond...

... within unions in auto and steel plants as well as railroads; on the myriad campaigns against affirmative action. Think of the many studies of housing riots, whites-only suburbanization, and predatory lending. For sure, many scholars have written about the criminal (in)justice system and police brutality...