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From a series of battles by rail worker in 1877 to the West Coast longshoremen's strike in 1934, Samuel Yellen tells the story of ten historic confrontations pitting working men and women against the owners of mines, mills, and railroads.
On one side stand the Carnegies and the Rockefellers, the press, police, courts, National Guard, and federal troops. On the other stand the workers, driven by long hours, intolerable working conditions, aod starvation wages to organize and fight back.
In the experiences and gains of these bitter strikes can be found the origins of today's unions. Yellen describes the different forces that come into play in each of these struggles, as well as the roles of the organizers and leaders—Eugene V. Debs, "Big Bill" Haywood, the anarchists, Wobblies, socialists, and communists.
“Brings to life the great labor conflicts of American history, from the railroad strikes of 1877 to the San Francisco general strike of 1934.” —Howard Zinn, author, A People’s History of the United States
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Samuel Yellen (1906–1983) historian, poet, and teacher, is the author of American Labor Struggles (1936), the story of ten historic battles by working men and women.
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