The student as strikebreaker: college youth and the crisis of masculinity in the early twentieth century.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 1994| Author: Norwood, Stephen H. | Copyright information

During the first quarter of the twentieth century, male college students represented a major, and often critically important source of strikebreakers. While administrators frowned on many student extra-curricular activities, they strongly encouraged strikebreaking. Students enthusiastically embraced strikebreaking not just to display antagonism toward labor, but even more importantly to prove their manhood. Strikebreaking provided the collegian with his best opportunity, short of military com...

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