The great strikes of 1877
By: edited by David O. Stowell.
Contributors: Stowell, David O.
Series: The working class in american history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252032417; 9780252074776
Subjects: Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877; Working class -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century; Social structure -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A pretty fair representation of the American people" : the great uprising and pictorial order in Gilded Age America / Joshua Brown; title: "Our rights as workingmen" : class traditions and collective action in a nineteenth-century railroad town, Hornellsville, N.Y., 1869-82 / Shelton Stromquist; title: Chicago's great upheaval of 1877 : class polarization and Democratic politics / Richard Schneirov; title: Looking north : a mid-south perspective on the Great Strike / Steven J. Hoffman; title: The July days in San Francisco, 1877 : prelude to Kearneyism / Michael Kazin; title: California's changing society and Mexican American conceptions of the Great Strike of 1877 / David Miller.