30,000 Locked Out: The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago

Name: 30,000 Locked Out: The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago
Author: James C. Beeks

by James C. Beeks

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Odessa Paige Turner, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Release date

2011-02-14

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Public domain in the USA.

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Strikes and lockouts -- Building trades -- Illinois -- Chicago Strikes and lockouts -- Illinois -- Chicago Building trades -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Illinois -- Chicago

About the author

James C. Beeks

Best known for chronicling a major Chicago labor battle, this early 20th-century writer captured the drama and stakes of a citywide building-trades strike. His surviving work offers a vivid window into labor conflict, organization, and public feeling in that era.

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