The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy

This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic St...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dennis, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2010, 2010
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago
Physical Description:288 p online resource
ISBN:9780230114722