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On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life an epic twenty-year struggle for the eight-hour wo

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Author

James R. Green, James R. Green, James Green

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307425478

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, History, Management

Updated

2026-03-24