The St. Louis Commune Of 1877 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The St. Louis Commune Of 1877 write by Mark Kruger. This book was released on 2021-10. The St. Louis Commune Of 1877 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the Civil War, large corporations emerged in the United States and became intent on maximizing their power and profits at all costs. Political corruption permeated American society as those corporate entities grew and spread across the country, leaving bribery and exploitation in their wake. This alliance between corporate America and the political class came to a screeching halt during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, when the U.S. workers in the railroad, mining, canal, and manufacturing industries called a general strike against monopoly capitalism and brought the country to an economic standstill. In The St. Louis Commune of 1877 Mark Kruger tells the riveting story of how workers assumed political control in St. Louis, Missouri. Kruger examines the roots of the St. Louis Commune--focusing on the 1848 German revolution, the Paris Commune, and the First International. Not only was 1877 the first instance of a general strike in U.S. history; it was also the first time workers took control of a major American city and the first time a city was ruled by a communist party.
Reign of the Rabble
Reign of the Rabble - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reign of the Rabble write by David T. Burbank. This book was released on 1966. Reign of the Rabble available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921
When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 write by Robert Ovetz. This book was released on 2018-08-07. When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States looks today much like it did in the late 19th to early 20th century. Open class conflict is disappearing, strikes are becoming rare, unions are declining, corporate power is growing, and work is insecure and contingent. When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 explores one of the most tumultuous times in United States history. Self-organised workers recomposed their power by devising new strategies and tactics to disrupt the capitalist economy and extract concessions. Mine, railroad, steel, and iron workers pursued a strategy of tension that sometimes erupted into militant class conflict and general strikes in which workers took over and ran a number of cities. Turning common wisdom on its head, When Workers Shot Back argues that the escalation of working class conflict drives rather than reacts to the consolidation and reorganisation of capital and economic and political reform of the state. Studying the class composition of this period illustrates why workers escalated the intensity of their tactics, even using tactical violence, to extract concessions and reforms when all other efforts to do so were blocked, coopted or repressed.
The Broken Heart of America
The Broken Heart of America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Broken Heart of America write by Walter Johnson. This book was released on 2020-04-14. The Broken Heart of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
Grass-Roots Socialism
Grass-Roots Socialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grass-Roots Socialism write by James R. Green. This book was released on 1978-07-01. Grass-Roots Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grass-Roots Socialism answers two of the most intriguing questions in the history of American radicalism: why was the Socialist party stronger in Oklahoma than in any other state, and how was the party able to build powerful organizations in nearby rural southwestern areas? Many of the same grievances that had created a strong Populist movement in the region provided the Socialists with potent political issues—the railroad monopoly, the crop lien system, and political corruption. With these widely felt grievances to build on, the Socialists led the class-conscious farmers and workers to a radicalism that was far in advance of that advocated by the earlier People’s party. Examined in this broadly based study of the movement are popular leaders like Oklahoma’s Oscar Ameringer (“The Mark Twain of American Socialism”), “Red Tom” Hickey of Texas, and Kate Richards O’Hare, who was second only to Eugene Debs as a Socialist orator. Included also is information on the party’s propaganda techniques, especially those used in the lively newspapers which claimed fifty thousand subscribers in the Southwest by 1913, and on the attractive summer camp meetings which drew thousands of poor white tenant farmers to week-long agitation and education sessions.
