Coxey's Crusade for Jobs : Unemployment in the Gilded Age /

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In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Though a financial panic and the resulting widespread business failures caused mi...

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Autor principal: Prout, Jerry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Labor > United States > History > 19th century.
Unemployed > United States > History > 19th century.
Unemployment > United States > History > 19th century.
Working class > United States > History > 19th century.
Humanities & Human Rights.
Labor History.
U.S. History.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
populism, laissez-faire market, Masillon Ohio, Jacob Coxey.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION The Cause of the Unemployed
  • CHAPTER ONE They Sleep on Marble Floors
  • CHAPTER TWO The Good Roads Plan
  • CHAPTER THREE A Millenarian Spectacle
  • CHAPTER FOUR Through the Prism of the Argus-Eyed
  • CHAPTER FIVE "Coxey is Coming"
  • EPILOGUE The Crusade Continued
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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