Blood, Sweat, and Fear
Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960–80
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2017
- Category
- Social History, Violence in Society, Midwest, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774834568
- Publish Date
- Jun 2017
- List Price
- $125.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774834537
- Publish Date
- May 2017
- List Price
- $75.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774834544
- Publish Date
- Sep 2017
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
Going postal. We think of the rogue employee who snaps. But in Blood, Sweat, and Fear, Jeremy Milloy demonstrates that workplace violence never occurs in isolation. Using violence as a lens, he provides fresh and original insights into the everyday workings of capitalism, class conflict, race, and gender in the United States and Canada of the late twentieth century, bringing historical perspective to contemporary debates about North American violence.
Milloy has produced the first full-length historical exploration of the origins and effects of individual violence in the automotive industry. His gripping analysis spans 1960 to 1980, when North American auto plants were routinely the sites of fights, assaults, and even murders, and argues that violence resulted primarily from workplace conditions including on-the-job exploitation, racial tension, bureaucratization, and hypermasculinity.
This explosive book reveals that workplace violence has been a constant aspect of class conflict – and that our understanding needs to go deeper.
About the author
Jeremy Milloy is the W.P. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University.
Awards
- Winner, The Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Award, The Society of Automotive Historians
Editorial Reviews
Blood, Sweat And Fear is fresh, unpredictable and candid … Milloy’s research is meticulous. He examines why people do what we do
Blacklock’s Reporter