The author portrays various confrontations between labor, capital, and the state. Toward this end, a sample of post-1960 cases illustrates typical examples of violent behavior by labor, capital's representatives, and state managers. These cases of work-related violence are by no means exhaustive, but are used in this chapter for their typicality. By using these specific vignettes, the author shows the public nature of the violence while describing the relative power of labor, capital, and the state; he demonstrates that such differential power relations contribute to violence both by and against labor. The chapter concludes that the state has engaged in violent acts against labor that have been just as consequential as any that labor has committed against industry or the state. Thus, each party in Canada's ongoing labor disputes has been equally guilty of violent actions that have resulted in varying degrees of social harm. In the final analysis, it is working men and women who have had the most to lose due to power differentials, and it is they who have suffered inordinately. 4 notes and 33 references