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Title The great strikes of 1877 / edited by David O. Stowell.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.8928138 G798 2008    ---  Available
Description 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series The working class in American history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The great uprising and pictorial order in Gilded Age America / Joshua Brown -- "Our rights as workingmen" : class traditions and collective action in a nineteenth-century railroad town, Hornellsville, N.Y., 1869-82 / Shelton Stromquist -- Chicago's great upheaval of 1877 : class polarization and Democratic politics / Richard Schneirov -- Looking north : a mid-south perspective on the Great Strike / Steven J. Hoffman -- The July days in San Francisco, 1877 : prelude to Kearneyism / Michael Kazin -- California's changing society and Mexican American conceptions of the Great Strike / David Miller.
Subject Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877.
Working class -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
Social structure -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
Added Author Stowell, David O. (David Omar)
ISBN 0252074777 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252032417 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252032411 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252074776 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NZ1 11399680
AU@ 000043160588

 
    
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