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From the beginning of the Industrial Time and continuing in to the twenty-first hundred years, companies confronted with militant staff and organizers have often turned to agencies that specialised in ending attacks and breaking unions. Although their secretive nature has made it difficult to totally explore the history of this industry, From Blackjacks to Briefcases will that. By digging through subpoenaed documents of strike-bound companies, their mercenaries, and the testimony of executive officers and rank-and-file strike-breakers, Robert Smith examines the internal workings of the antiunion industry. In a very clear and lively style, he brings alive the violent armed guards utilized on the picket brand or in the coal camps; the ruffians who loaded the armies marshaled by the "King of the Strike-breakers," Pearl Bergoff; the labor spies who wrecked many unions; and, following the Wagner Function, those who manipulated national labor legislation to serve their clients. In From Blackjacks to Briefcases, Smith uses the history of this ongoing have difficulty and tells a compelling history that parallels the history of the United States over the last century . 5.
