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Author Green, James R., 1944-2016.

Title Death in the Haymarket : a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America / James Green.

Imprint New York : Anchor Books, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Rosen  977.311041 G823d 2007    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st Anchor books ed.
Description 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject Haymarket Square Riot (Chicago, Illinois : 1886) (OCoLC)fst01404551
Labor movement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886.
Working class -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.
Social conflict -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Labor movement. (OCoLC)fst00990079
Social conflict. (OCoLC)fst01122378
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781400033225 (pbk.)
1400033225 (pbk.)

 
    
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