Features of the Month : Death in the Haymarket by James Green

[Omaha Steve]

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$26.95

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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded America, by James Green, Pantheon Books, 2006, 383 pages, hardcover. In "Death in the Haymarket," James Green offers a narrative history of Chicago's Haymarket bombing at a labor rally in May 1886 and the infamous trial that followed. Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life the 20-year battle for the eight-hour workday. "Death in the Haymarket" also gives us a portrait of Chicago, which was the Midwestern powerhouse of the Gilded Age. We see the great factories and their wealthy owners, including men such as George Pullman. Green also gives us an intimate view of the communities of immigrant employees who worked at these factories.

[two gun sid]

1. Thanks for the heads-up...

on this book. I was just talking to my old military buddy about Parson and Spies and the 8 hour day. I'm gonna order this book.