Death in the Haymarket A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America

Name: Death in the Haymarket A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
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ISBN: 9781400033225

ISBN-10: 1400033225

ISBN-13: 9781400033225

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Authors: James Green

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On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life an epic twenty-year struggle for the eight-hour workday. Blending a gripping narrative, outsized characters and a panoramic portrait of a major social movement, "Death in the Haymarket" is an important addition to the history of American capitalism…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.95" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Maps


Prologue



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


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits


Index