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Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America
Dynamite The Story of Class Violence In America
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Labor disputes have produced more violence over a longer period of time in the United States than in any other industrialized country in the world. From the 1890s to the 1930s, hardly a year passed without a serious?and often deadly?clash between workers and management. Written in the 1930s, and with a new introduction by Mike Davis, Dynamit... more » recounts a fascinating and largely forgotten history of class and labor struggle in America?s industrial beginnings. It is the story of brutal exploitation, massacres, and judicial murders of the workers. It is also the story of their response: when peaceful strikes yielded no results, workers fought back by any means necessary. Louis Adamic has written the classic story of labor conflict in America, detailing many episodes of labor violence, including the Molly Maguires, the Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Colorado Labor Wars, the Los Angeles Times bombing, as well as the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Louis Adamic emigrated from Slovenia when he was fifteen years old and quickly joined the American labor force. The author of eleven books, he is now recognized as a great figure in early twentieth-century American literature. He was found shot to death in a burning farmhouse in 1954. Introduction by Jon Bekken, co-author of The Industrial Workers of the World: Its First Hundred Years, 1905?2005 and co-editor of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review.
Author:
Labor disputes have produced more violence over a longer period of time in the United States than in any other industrialized country in the world. From the 1890s to the 1930s, hardly a year passed without a serious?and often deadly?clash between workers and management. Written in the 1930s, and with a new introduction by Mike Davis, Dynamit... more » recounts a fascinating and largely forgotten history of class and labor struggle in America?s industrial beginnings. It is the story of brutal exploitation, massacres, and judicial murders of the workers. It is also the story of their response: when peaceful strikes yielded no results, workers fought back by any means necessary. Louis Adamic has written the classic story of labor conflict in America, detailing many episodes of labor violence, including the Molly Maguires, the Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Colorado Labor Wars, the Los Angeles Times bombing, as well as the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Louis Adamic emigrated from Slovenia when he was fifteen years old and quickly joined the American labor force. The author of eleven books, he is now recognized as a great figure in early twentieth-century American literature. He was found shot to death in a burning farmhouse in 1954. Introduction by Jon Bekken, co-author of The Industrial Workers of the World: Its First Hundred Years, 1905?2005 and co-editor of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review.
ISBN-13: 9781904859741
ISBN-10: 1904859747
Publication Date: 12/18/2008
Pages: 380
Rating: 1
ISBN-10: 1904859747
Publication Date: 12/18/2008
Pages: 380
Rating: 1
3.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Genres:
- Business & Money >> Economics >> Labor & Industrial Relations
- History >> Americas >> United States >> 19th Century
- History >> Americas >> United States >> 20th Century
- History >> Historical Study & Educational Resources >> Revolutionary
- History >> Modern (16th-21st Centuries) >> 19th Century
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Violence in Society
- Politics & Social Sciences >> Politics & Government >> Ideologies & Doctrines >> Radicalism
- Politics & Social Sciences >> Politics & Government >> Specific Topics >> Labor & Industrial Relations
