Research Catalog

Title

The Pullman Strike and the crisis of the 1890s : essays on labor and politics / edited by Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Schneirov, Richard.
• Stromquist, Shelton, 1943-
• Salvatore, Nick, 1943-

Description

258 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The working class in American history

Uniform Title

Working class in American history

Subject

Pullman Strike, 1894 > Congresses

Note

• Compilation of revised versions of a number of conference papers presented at Indiana State University at Terre Haute on Sept. 23-24, 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dress rehearsal for Pullman : the Knights of Labor and the 1890 New York Central Strike / Robert E. Weir -- The search for unity among railroad workers : the Pullman Strike in perspective / Susan E. Hirsch -- Modern Lear and his daughters : gender in the model town of Pullman / Janice L. Reiff -- The changing image of labor conflict in the 1890s : corporate, labor, government, and media attempts to mold public perceptions of the Pullman Strike / Larry Peterson -- Advocate for democracy : Jane Addams and the Pullman Strike / Victoria Brown -- The federal judiciary, free labor, and equal rights : a peculiar chapter in the history of the state and labor / Melvyn Dubofsky -- The crisis of 1894 and the legacies of producerism / Shelton Stromquist -- Labor and the new liberalism in the wake of the Pullman Strike / Richard Schneirov -- Epilogue: the Pullman Boycott and the making of modern America / David Montgomery.

ISBN

• 0252024478 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 025206755X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^98025404^

OCLC

• 39334762
• SCSB-10091771

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library