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Going postal. We call to mind the rogue worker who snaps. But Blood, Sweat, and Fear demonstrates that place of business violence never occurs in isolation. The usage of violence as a lens, Jeremy Milloy supplies fresh and original insights into the on a regular basis workings of capitalism, class conflict, race, and gender in the USA and Canada of the past due twentieth century, bringing historical point of view to recent debates about North American violence. This explosive book traces the shift from the collective violence of strikes and riots to the individualized violence of assaults and shootings, revealing the historical context of the place of business as battleground.