Dynamite: the story of class violence in America
By: Louis Adamic
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: P. Smith
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Gloucester, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
Copyright date: 1934
Subjects: Anarchism; Strikes and lockouts; Labor unions; Social conditions; Working class; History
Description: Includes sections on the Molly Maguires, the great riots of 1877, the Haymarket tragedy, the Homestead strike, the Wobblies, Sacco and Vanzetti.

Contains primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Mild beginnings: 1. "Impudent conduct"; title: 2. The Molly Maguires; title: 3. The Great Riot of 1877; title: pt. 2. Dynamite ... that's the stuff: 4 An apostle of terrorism comes to America; title: 5. The stage is set for the Haymarket tragedy; title: 6. The first bomb; title: 7. The labor movement becomes a "racket"; title: 8. Criminals are drawn into the class war; title: pt. 3. The war begins in earnest: 9. The Homestead Strike; title: 10. Coxey's army; title: 11. "The Debs Rebellion"; title: 12. Violence in the west; title: 13. The reddening dawn of the twentieth century; title: 14. "To Hell with the Constitution"; title: 15. The murder trial in Idaho; title: 16. The Wobblies; title: pt. 4. The McNamara affair: 17. General Capital-Labor Situation : 1905-1910; title: 18. The A.F. of L. Dynamiters; title: 19. The plot to dynamite the Los Angeles "Times"; title: 20. The explosion; title: and after; title: 21. "Frame-up!"; title: 22. The trial and the political campaign; title: 23. "The boys" confess and Gomphers weeps; title: 24. The A.F. of L. Loses it militancy; title: pt. 5. Massacres, frame-ups, and judicial murders : 25. Slaughter east and west; title: 26. The Mooney-Billings frame-up; title: 27. The Great Steel Strike; title: 28. The Centralia Outrage; title: 29. Sacco and Vanzetti; title: "Those anarchistic bastards"; title: pt. 6. Recent tendencies in the class war (1920-1934) : 30. Labor and the beginnings of "Racketeering"; title: 31. Racketeering as a phase of class conflict; title: 32. Sabotage and "Striking on the job"; title: What next; title: more dynamite?