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The River Ran Red: Homestead 1892 (Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History) by David P. Demarest, Jr., general editor; Fannia Weingartner, coordinating editor; with an afterword by David Montgomery is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The River Ran Red: Homestead 1892 (Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History) about?

On July 6, 1892, violence erupted at the Carnegie Steel mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania, when striking employees and Pinkerton detectives hired to break the strike exchanged gunfire along the shore of the Monongahela River. The skirmish left some dozen dead, led to a congressional investigation, sparked a nearly successful assassination attempt on Carnegie Steel executive Henry Clay Frick, and altered the course of the American labor movement. The River Ran Red recreates the events of that summer using firsthand accounts and archival material, including excerpts from newspapers and magazines, reproductions of pen-and-ink sketches and photographs made on the scene, passages from the congressional investigation, and poems, songs, and sermons from across the country. Contributions by outstanding scholars provide the background for understanding the social and cultural aspects of the strike, as well as its violence and repercussions. Written to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the strike, The River Ran Red records and contextualizes public and personal reactions to one of the most important events in labor history, the reverberations of which are still felt today.

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Author

David P. Demarest, Jr., general editor; Fannia Weingartner, coordinating editor; with an afterword by David Montgomery

Publisher

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822937104

Category

history

Subjects

Business, Economics, Management

Rating

4.33 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14