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"The River Ran Red: Homestead 1892 (Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History) - Softcover

 
9780822954781: "The River Ran Red: Homestead 1892 (Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822954788 ISBN 13: 9780822954781
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

On July 6, 1892, violence erupted at the Carnegie Steel mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania, when striking employees and Pinkerton detectives hired to break the strike exchanged gunfire along the shore of the Monongahela River. The skirmish left some dozen dead, led to a congressional investigation, sparked a nearly successful assassination attempt on Carnegie Steel executive Henry Clay Frick, and altered the course of the American labor movement. The River Ran Red recreates the events of that summer using firsthand accounts and archival material, including excerpts from newspapers and magazines, reproductions of pen-and-ink sketches and photographs made on the scene, passages from the congressional investigation, and poems, songs, and sermons from across the country. Contributions by outstanding scholars provide the background for understanding the social and cultural aspects of the strike, as well as its violence and repercussions. Written to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the strike, The River Ran Red records and contextualizes public and personal reactions to one of the most important events in labor history, the reverberations of which are still felt today.

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David P. Demarest Jr. teaches English at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Verlag
University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822954788
ISBN 13 
9780822954781
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
244
Herausgeber
Demarest David P.
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