TY  - BOOK
N2  - On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. Coming in the midst of the largest national strike Americans had ever seen, the bombing created mass hysteria and led to a sensational trial, which culminated in four controversial executions. The trial seized headlines across the country, created the nation's first Red scare and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life the epic twenty-year battle for the eight-hour workday. He also gives us a portrait of Chicago, the Midwestern powerhouse of the Gilded Age. Throughout, we are reminded of the increasing power of newspapers as they stirred up popular fears of the immigrants and radicals who led the unions.--From publisher description.
AB  - On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. Coming in the midst of the largest national strike Americans had ever seen, the bombing created mass hysteria and led to a sensational trial, which culminated in four controversial executions. The trial seized headlines across the country, created the nation's first Red scare and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life the epic twenty-year battle for the eight-hour workday. He also gives us a portrait of Chicago, the Midwestern powerhouse of the Gilded Age. Throughout, we are reminded of the increasing power of newspapers as they stirred up popular fears of the immigrants and radicals who led the unions.--From publisher description.
T1  - Death in the Haymarket :a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America /
DA  - 2007.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Green, James R.,
ET  - 1st Anchor Books ed.
CN  - HD8085.C53
CN  - HD8085.C53
PB  - Anchor Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2007.
ID  - 339393
KW  - Labor movement
KW  - Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886.
KW  - Working class
KW  - Social conflict
SN  - 9781400033225 (pbk.)
SN  - 1400033225 (pbk.)
TI  - Death in the Haymarket :a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America /
ER  -