The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor.A review of the book "The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor," by Theresa A. Case is presented.ALTERUniversityofIIUniversityofTHOMASUniversityofE.UniversityofEBSCO_AspSouthwestern Historical Quarterly...
The strike began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on July 16, 1877, after workers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were informed that their pay would be cut 10 percent. Workers grumbled about the loss of income in small groups, and by the end of the day railroad firemen began walking off...
On the surface, Theresa Case's The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor could simply appear as a much needed and decades long overdue treatment of the 1886 Great Southwest Strike. Upon digging into this work, though, one finds a rich ideological examination of nineteenth-century ...
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the United States's first major rail strike. It showed how reliant the nation's economy had become on the railroad, and was quickly put down with help from the federal government.Answer and Explanation: ...
The scene depicts the West Side’s infamous “Death Avenue,” where New York Central Railroad freight trains mixed with a jumble of automobiles, wagons and pedestrians amid factories and warehouses. Beginning in the 1850s “West Side Cowboys” rode in front of trains as a safety precaution. ...
Above, Screen Snapshots captured pioneer Hollywood stunt pilot/actor Frank Clarke flying an airplane from the roof of the Los Angeles Railroad Building downtown, beginning at 01:35 on YouTube HERE. Seen here under construction, before a later building would block the full view, it still stands...
Answer and Explanation: During the great upheaval of 1886, the railroad workers struck against Jay Gould's railroads. The railroad workers closed the country's railroads as...
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Railroad workers and the great strike of 1877: The view from a small Midwest citydoi:10.1080/00236568008584596Nick SalvatoreAsst. Prof. of HistoryLabor HistoryNick Salvatore, "Railroad Workers and the Great Strike of 1877, "Labor History 21, no. 4 (Fall 1980): 525. Business Source Premier, ...