Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Epigraph

Maps

PART I

May 1893–May 1894

  1.  Boss Town

  2.  Our Cause Is Just

  3.  More Than a Joke

  4.  A Heart for Others

  5.  The Commercial Value of Beauty

  6.  Well-Wishing Feudalism

  7.  Armies

  8.  The Works Are Closed

PART II

May 12–July 3, 1894

  9.  Nothing to Arbitrate

10.  Dance of Skeletons

11.  The Crisis Has Come

12.  We Mean Business

13.  Not a Wheel Moving

14.  Disaster Threatens

15.  To a Standstill

16.  Ragged Edge

PART III

July 4–July 12, 1894

17.  We Shall Have Debs

18.  Strike Fever

19.  Pandemonium

20.  Day of Blood

21.  I, Grover

22.  Watching a Man Drown

23.  Last Resort

PART IV

July 13, 1894–October 20, 1926

24.  The Poor Striker

25.  Everything Was at Stake

26.  Strikes and Their Causes

27.  The Common Heartbeat

28.  True to Man

29.  Solidarity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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