Labor and urban politics : class conflict and the origins of modern liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97
This finely detailed narrative is the definitive account of the rise to power of the Chicago labor movement amidst the 1877 railroad strike, the 1886 struggle over the eight-hour workday, and the 1894 Pullman strike
History
viii, 390 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
9780252023743, 9780252066764, 0252023749, 0252066766
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Early class formation in Chicago, 1864-72
Labor and party politics, 1868-77
The rise of the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Labor Party
Chicago's Irish and the Knights of Labor
The Irish Land League and the Knights of Labor
Labor's democracy in the age of Carter Harrison
The decline of Harrison's democracy and the origins of Haymarket, 1883-86
The Knights of Labor and the great upheaval of 1886
Chicago politics and the United Labor Party, 1886-87
The decline of the Knights and the rise of the trade unions, 1887-89
Labor and modern liberalism in Chicago politics, 1887-91
Consolidating the new unionism
Creating a new urban agenda in the Depression Era