Militarism, Empire, and Labor Relations

The Case of Brice P. Disque

Bibliographic Data

ID11213640
AuthorsJoshua B Freeman (Queens University of Charlotte, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume80
Issue1
Pages103-120
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0147547911000093
OpenAlexW2109067043
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited24

Although war and militarization have loomed large in the history of the United States for well over a century, labor historians have only infrequently examined the relationship between American labor and the military. The career of General Brice Pursell Disque suggests the complex flow of ideas and personnel back and forth between labor relations in the military and in the civilian economy. First involved with the management of labor as an officer during the Spanish-American War, Disque went on to serve as a prison warden, the head of an army effort to suppress labor radicalism in the timber industry during the First World War, and in business posts involving collective bargaining. Through Disque we can begin to see the multiple connections between labor relations in the so-called free market of the private sphere and in the decidedly unfree arenas of military and penal life

Economic history · Economics · Empire · Labor history · Labor relations · Militarism · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Prison · Sociology · American History and Culture · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Industrial relations · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

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