Strike!No book has done as much as Strike! to bring U.S. labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the exciting hidden history of the U.S. labor movement from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. "An exciting history of American labor....Brings to life the flashpoints of labor history....Scholarly, genuinely stirring."--The New York Times |
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action AFL-CIO American American Railway Union April armed arrested auto bargaining began Bernstein Brecher called cars Chicago cited in Bruce coal conflict contract crowd demands deputies developed eight-hour eight-hour day employers factory federal troops fired force global governor grievances groups Ibid industry issues join the strike July Knights of Labor labor movement Labor Notes large numbers leadership March mass strike meeting ment militia mill miners Motors National Guard night non-union organized Pennsylvania percent picket lines Pittsburgh plant police Powderly president production Pullman Pullman strike railroad workers rank-and-file refused Seattle sitdown social solidarity spread Staley steel stop Strike Committee strikebreakers struck struggle sympathetic strike Teamsters Tim Costello tion trade unions train U.S. Steel unemployed union leaders union officials United violence voted Wall Street Journal week wildcat workplace wrote York