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The Pullman Strike and the crisis of the 1890s : essays on labor and politics

The Pullman strike of 1894 shut down the rail system from Chicago to the West Coast, culminating two decades of labor unrest and helping to define an epochal transition in American history. This title contains essays that talk about the importance of the Pullman conflict and its aftermath for understanding the course of American history.
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, ©1999
Aufsatzsammlung
258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780252024474, 9780252067556, 0252024478, 025206755X
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Compilation of revised versions of a number of conference papers presented at Indiana State University at Terre Haute on Sept. 23-24, 1994