Overview

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.

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Author:   M. Dennis
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9780230618213

ISBN 10:   0230618219
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   19 January 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Fire and Steel in South Chicago Crisis Delayed: The 1920s in Chicago and America Out of Despair, Ferment: Upheaval in the 1930s Mailed Fists and Velvet Gloves in the Struggle for Steel Loading the Charge: The Steel Workers Organize Irresistible Forces: The Test of Mettle at Republic Steel 'Trouble is Certain to Follow': the Coming Conflict A Sunday to Remember in South Chicago Counter-Revolution: The Campaign against Industrial Democracy 'A Major Breakdown of Democratic Government' 'Ruthlessness and Disregard for the Law': After the Massacre 'The Day is Coming…': Echoes from the Little Steel Struggle

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<p>&#8220;Michael Dennis&#8217;s exploration of the events and meaning of the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre in the Chicago Little Steel strike combines a stirring narrative account of a terrible day in the history of industrial conflict with a compelling argument for the radical potential of the quest for a democratic workplace in New Deal America.&#8221;&#8212;Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, Hamilton College, and author of Which Side Were You On?: The American Communist Party During the Second World War <p>&#8220;Michael Dennis has placed a landmark event in US history into its broader social and political context as a turning point in the long struggle to inject an element of democracy into American industry.&#160;In the process, he places in a new light the Memorial Day Massacre, an experience often invoked but just as often misunderstood.&#8221;&#8212;James R. Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<p>&#8220;In this rich and highly readable&#160;

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MICHAEL DENNIS is an Assistant Professor at Acadia University, Canada.

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