Death in the Haymarket : a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America / James Green.
2007
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Title
Death in the Haymarket : a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America / James Green.
Author
Green, James R., 1944-2016.
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
ISBN
9781400033225 (pbk.)
1400033225 (pbk.)
1400033225 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Anchor Books, 2007.
Language
English
Description
383 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Call Number
HD8085.C53 G74 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
977.3/11041
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
For once in common front
A paradise for workers and speculators
We may not always be so secure
A liberty-thirsty people
The inevitable uprising
The flame that makes the kettle boil
A brutal and inventive vitality
The international
The great upheaval
A storm of strikes
A night of terror
The strangest frenzy
Every man on the jury was an American
You are being weighed in the balance
The law is vindicated
The judgment of history.
A paradise for workers and speculators
We may not always be so secure
A liberty-thirsty people
The inevitable uprising
The flame that makes the kettle boil
A brutal and inventive vitality
The international
The great upheaval
A storm of strikes
A night of terror
The strangest frenzy
Every man on the jury was an American
You are being weighed in the balance
The law is vindicated
The judgment of history.