The South-western Strike of 1886
Author | : Frank William Taussig |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1887 |
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Author | : Frank William Taussig |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1887 |
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Author | : Theresa Ann Case |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 1603443401 |
Author | : Missouri. Labour Statistics, Bureau of |
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Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Strikes and lockouts |
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Author | : Missouri. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Inspection |
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Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
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Author | : Missouri. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Labor |
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Author | : Robert E. Riegel |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : History |
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On December 23, 1852, the first train on the first railroad west of the Mississippi River steamed proudly from St. Louis to Cheltenham—the immense distance of five miles. In that moment of exaltation, writes Robert Edgar Riegel, "flags waved, bands played, and orators prophesied the flowering of the West under the beneficent influence of the steam locomotive. For once the orators were right. An epoch was marked. Twenty-five years earlier the musical whistle of the locomotive was as yet unheard in the United States. Twenty-five years later steel tracks spanned the continent from New York to San Francisco." In this account of the railroad conquest of the United States, the author is primarily concerned with the western phase of the story. He follows the Iron Horse west through Indian trouble, labor difficulties, civil war, and farmer disillusionment to the completion of the western railroad net. All aspects of the subject—financial, industrial, engineering, as well as the development of railroad regulation—are covered in this classic work.
Author | : Theresa A. Case |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2010-02-23 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1603441700 |
Focusing on a story largely untold until now, Theresa A. Case studies the "Great Southwest Strike of 1886," which pitted entrepreneurial freedom against the freedom of employees to have a collective voice in their workplace. This series of local actions involved a historic labor agreement followed by the most massive sympathy strike the nation had ever seen. It attracted western railroaders across lines of race and skill, contributed to the rise and decline of the first mass industrial union in U.S. history (the Knights of Labor), and brought new levels of federal intervention in railway strikes. Case takes a fresh look at the labor unrest that shook Jay Gould's railroad empire in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois. In Texas towns and cities like Marshall, Dallas, Fort Worth, Palestine, Texarkana, Denison, and Sherman, union recognition was the crucial issue of the day. Case also powerfully portrays the human facets of this strike, reconstructing the story of Martin Irons, a Scottish immigrant who came to adopt the union cause as his own. Irons committed himself wholly to the failed strike of 1886, continuing to urge violence even as courts handed down injunctions protecting the railroads, national union leaders publicly chastised him, the press demonized him, and former strikers began returning to work. Irons’s individual saga is set against the backdrop of social, political, and economic changes that transformed the region in the post–Civil War era. Students, scholars, and general readers interested in railroad, labor, social, or industrial history will not want to be without The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor.
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Total Pages | : 1268 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.
Author | : C. Vann Woodward |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1981-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807100196 |
Winner of the Bancroft Prize After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South. Historian Sheldon Hackney recently summed it up this way: “The pyramid still stands. Origins of the New South has survived relatively untarnished through twenty years of productive scholarship, including the eras of consensus and of the new radicalism. . . . Woodward recognizes both the likelihood of failure and the necessity of struggle. It is this profound ambiguity which makes his work so interesting. Like the myth of Sisyphus, Origins of the New South still speaks to our condition.” This enlarged edition contains a new preface by the author and a critical essay on recent works by Charles B. Dew.
Author | : Florence Frances McDermott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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