Review: Good
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2011
Taking place in 1877, the author takes the reader on a factual tour of the underpaid workers against the giants of the time, the major railroad companies. The action takes place in West Virginia, but mainly Pennsylvania.The book is pro-labor and nicely lays out working conditions in that era. The workers have had it. They, strike, rebel, and riot. The railroads strike back with the state militias.It's an interesting piece that climaxes in Pittsburgh. The writing, I found a bit too dry. In the end the author makes a correlation between 1877 & 2011. You can be the judge of that in this 79 page short story