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The Yellow Dog Unleashed

In: The History of Work

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  • Richard Donkin

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Pittsburgh, Saturday, July 21, 1877, the night that the American Dream lay shattered among the broken glass and rubble of the city’s burning goods yards, the night that the spirit of entrepreneurialism and unrestrained capitalism clashed headlong with the demands of railroad workers for a fair day’s pay. People were dying, caught up in the ugliest labor disturbances that America had experienced. The disturbances were put down by federal troops ordered to turn on their countrymen for the first time, just twelve years after the country had emerged from civil war. From the start of the dispute five days earlier to its end nine days later, more than a hundred people, some of them bystanders, would be killed in street fighting centered on Baltimore, Cumberland, Pittsburgh, and Reading.

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  • Richard Donkin, 2010. "The Yellow Dog Unleashed," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The History of Work, chapter 0, pages 117-132, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28217-9_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230282179_9
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