The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9780230618213
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This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago.

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ISBN13:9780230618213
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Introduction Fire and Steel in South Chicago Crisis Delayed: The 1920s in Chicago and America Out of Despair, Ferment: Upheaval in the 1930s Mailed Fists and Velvet Gloves in the Struggle for Steel Loading the Charge: The Steel Workers Organize Irresistible Forces: The Test of Mettle at Republic Steel 'Trouble is Certain to Follow': the Coming Conflict A Sunday to Remember in South Chicago Counter-Revolution: The Campaign against Industrial Democracy 'A Major Breakdown of Democratic Government' 'Ruthlessness and Disregard for the Law': After the Massacre 'The Day is Coming…': Echoes from the Little Steel Struggle

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