The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel

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University of Pittsburgh Pre, Jun 15, 1992 - History - 584 pages
Paul Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history, intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology to situate the events of the lockout and their significance in the broad context of America’s Guilded Age. Utilizing extensive archival material, much of it heretofore unknown, he reconstructs the social, intellectual, and political climate of the burgeoning post-Civil War steel industry.
 

Contents

Preface
Homestead and the American Republic in the Gilded
PART
Captains of Steel
From
Roots of Labor Reform and Machine Politics
The Lockout of 18741875
The Knights of Labor
Defeat in the City and the State
Labor in Greater Pittsburgh During the 1880s
East Europeans in Homestead
Robber Baron and Philanthropist
The Making of a Workers
Exemplary Paradoxes
PART
Silenced Minorities

Mill Owners and Machine Politicians on the Offensive
Miners Amalgamate in Late Afternoon
PART FOUR
The Homestead Strike of 1882
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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