On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Michael Hoover wrote:
>> may not matter much after so many decades, but origins of above were in
>> company and state repression/violence,
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> Yeah, but how come it didn't happen anywhere else?
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> so, for a start, here goes, u.s. capital was more vicious
I once took a research colloquium with Charles Tilly (who, both by his own work and that of the armies of grad students he's sheparded through dissertations using his frameworks and thence into jobs, has some claim to be the grandmaster of comparative strike analsysis), and IIRC he said that no matter what metric they used, American labor history stood out as outstandingly more violent than that of Europe during the formative period of the 1890s through the 1930s.
Michael