num_pages: 556
description: This is the first paperback edition of a moving appraisal of the infamous Haymarket bombing (May 1886) and the trial that followed it--a trial that was a cause célèbre in the 1880s and that has since been recognized as one of the most unjust in the annals of American jurisprudence. Paul Avrich shows how eight anarchists who were blamed for the bombing at a workers' meeting near Chicago's Haymarket Square became the focus of a variety of passionately waged struggles.
language: English
title: The Haymarket Tragedy
titlecomplete: The Haymarket Tragedy
genres: History, American History, Labor, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 91
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
publisher: Princeton University Press