9780226776699 - Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 (Historical Studies of Urban America) von Stowell, David O. O. (10 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 168 pages, 4 halftones, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272. . 1999. New ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. xii, 181, [7] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. The cover has minor wear and soiling. David O. Stowell was an assistant professor of history at Keene State College when he authored this seminal work. This is one of the Historical Studies of Urban America series. For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most violent urban uprisings in American history. David O. Stowell examines America's predicament to uncover the roots of this rebellion. He studies the origins of the Strike in three upstate New York cities--Buffalo, Albany, and Syracuse. He finds that locomotives rumbled through crowded urban spaces, sending panicked horses and their wagons careening through streets. People were killed and injured with appalling regularity. The trains disrupted traffic and obstructed commerce. Stowell argues, The Great Strike was not simply an uprising fueled by disgruntled workers. Rather, it was a reflection of one of the most direct and damaging ways people experienced the Industrial Revolution. "The author advances the thesis that the strike. represented a community uprising.A particular strength of the book is Stowell's description of the horrendous accidents, the toll in human life, and the continual disruption of craft, business, and ordinary movement engendered by building railroads into the heart of cities."--Charles Glaab, American Historical Review. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first strike that spread across multiple states in the U.S. The strike ended 52 days later, after it was put down by unofficial militias, the National Guard, and federal troops. Because of economic problems and pressure on wages by the railroads, workers in numerous other states, from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois and Missouri, also went on strike. An estimated 100 people were killed in the unrest across the country. In Martinsburg, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other cities, workers burned down and destroyed both physical facilities and the rolling stock of the railroadsengines and railroad cars. Some locals feared that workers were rising in revolution, similar to the Paris Commune of 1871, while others joined their efforts against the railroads. At the time, the workers were not represented by trade unions. The city and state governments were aided by unofficial militias, the National Guard, federal troops and private militias organized by the railroads, who all fought against the workers. Disruption was widespread and at its height, the strikes were supported by about 100,000 workers. With the intervention of federal troops in several locations, most of the strikes were suppressed by early August 1877. Labor continued to work to organize into unions to work for better wages and conditions. Fearing future social disruption, many cities built armories to support local National Guard units; these defensive buildings still stand as symbols of the effort to suppress the labor unrest of this period. With public attention on workers' wages and conditions, the B&O in 1880 founded an Employee Relief Association to provide death benefits and some health care. In 1884, it established a worker pension plan. Other improvements were implemented later. When the Civil War ended, a boom in railroad construction ensued; roughly 35,000 miles of new track was laid from coast to coast between 1866 and 1873. The railroads, then the second-largest employer outside of agriculture, required large amounts of capital investment, and thus entailed massive financial risk. Speculators fed large amounts of money into the industry, causing abnormal growth and over-expansion. Jay Cooke's firm, like many other banking firms, invested a disproportionate share of depositors' funds in the railroads, thus laying the track for the ensuing collapse. In addition to Cooke's direct infusion of capital into the railroads, the firm had become a federal agent for the government's direct financing of railroad construction. As building new track in areas where land had not yet been cleared or settled required land grants and loans that only the government could provide, the use of Jay Cooke's firm as a conduit for federal funding worsened the effects that Cooke's bankruptcy had on the nation's economy. In the wake of the Panic of 1873, a bitter antagonism between workers and the leaders of industry developed. Immigration from Europe was underway, as was migration of rural workers into the cities, increasing competition for jobs and enabling companies to drive down wages and easily lay off workers. By 1877, 10 percent wage cuts, distrust of capitalists and poor working conditions led workers to conduct numerous railroad strikes that prevented the trains from moving, with spiraling effects in other parts of the economy. Workers continued to organize to try to improve their conditions. Employers and liberals feared the spread of communism, particularly through organizations like the Workingmen's Party recently founded in Chicago, and often drew comparisons between such movements in the United States and the recent Paris Commune of 1871.

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Industrial Revolution Incarnate 2. The Contested Terrain of the Streets3. Striking against the Railroads4. Who Was in the Crowd?5. The AftermathConclusion: The Great Strike a.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The 'Industrial Revolution Incarnate'2. The Contested Terrain of the Streets3. Striking against the Railroads4. Who Was in the Crowd 5. The AftermathConclusion: The Great Strike as Urban HistoryNotesSelected BibliographyIndex.