[PDF] The Great Strikes Of 1877 eBook

Author : David O. Stowell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0252056353

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A spectacular example of collective protest, the Great Strike of 1877--actually a sequence of related actions--was America's first national strike and the first major strike against the railroad industry. In some places, non-railroad workers also abandoned city businesses, creating one of the nation's first general strikes. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers, the Great Strikes of 1877 transformed the nation's political landscape, shifting the primary political focus from Reconstruction to labor, capital, and the changing role of the state. Probing essays by distinguished historians explore the social, political, regional, and ethnic landscape of the Great Strikes of 1877: long-term effects on state militias and national guard units; ethnic and class characterization of strikers; pictorial representations of poor laborers in the press; organizational strategies employed by railroad workers; participation by blacks; violence against Chinese immigrants; and the developing tension between capitalism and racial equality in the United States. Contributors: Joshua Brown, Steven J. Hoffman, Michael Kazin, David Miller, Richard Schneirov, David O. Stowell, and Shelton Stromquist.

Author : David O. Stowell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 1999-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226776699

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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. Whereas most historians treat the event solely as a massive labor strike that targeted the railroads, David O. Stowell examines America's predicament more broadly to uncover the roots of this rebellion. He studies the urban 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. Hundreds of people were killed and injured with appalling regularity. The trains also disrupted street traffic and obstructed certain forms of commerce. For these reasons, Stowell argues, The Great Strike was not simply an uprising fueled by disgruntled workers. Rather, it was a grave reflection of one of the most direct and damaging ways many people experienced the Industrial Revolution. "Through meticulously crafted case studies . . . the author advances the thesis that the strike had urban roots, that in substantial part it 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 N. Glaab, American Historical Review

Author : David Omar Stowell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Grève des cheminots, États-Unis, 1877
ISBN : 0252074777

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New perspectives on a pivotal moment in U.S. history

Author : Eric Leif Davin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1387878263

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The Great Strike of 1877 was the largest labor upheaval on Earth for the entire century between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the beginning of the Great War in 1914. For two weeks America burned. This is that story.

Author : Joseph A. Dacus
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385534550

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Author : Philip S. Foner
Publisher : Pathfinder
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873488280

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The first generalized confrontation between labor and capital in the United States, which effectively shut down the entire railway system. "An essential addition to any collection on labor history"--Library Journal.

Author : Robert Ovetz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9004370331

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The United States looks today much like it did in the late 19th to early 20th century. Open class conflict is disappearing, strikes are becoming rare, unions are declining, corporate power is growing, and work is insecure and contingent. When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 explores one of the most tumultuous times in United States history. Self-organised workers recomposed their power by devising new strategies and tactics to disrupt the capitalist economy and extract concessions. Mine, railroad, steel, and iron workers pursued a strategy of tension that sometimes erupted into militant class conflict and general strikes in which workers took over and ran a number of cities. Turning common wisdom on its head, When Workers Shot Back argues that the escalation of working class conflict drives rather than reacts to the consolidation and reorganisation of capital and economic and political reform of the state. Studying the class composition of this period illustrates why workers escalated the intensity of their tactics, even using tactical violence, to extract concessions and reforms when all other efforts to do so were blocked, coopted or repressed.

Author : Clayton D. Laurie
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 1997-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780160882685

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CMH 30-15. Army Historical Series. 2nd of three planned volumes on the history of Army domestic support operations. This volume encompasses the period of the rise of industrial America with attendant social dislocation and strife. Major themes are: the evolution of the Army's role in domestic support operations; its strict adherence to law; and the disciplined manner in which it conducted these difficult and often unpopular operations.