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Striking with the Ballot: Ohio Labor and the Populist Party de Michael Pierce

Striking with the Ballot: Ohio Labor and the Populist Party

Autor Michael Pierce
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 mar 2010
 Historians have typically thought of Populism as a radical agrarian movement. In this much-needed corrective, Pierce argues that, in Ohio, Populism was an urban, not rural, movement and that industrial workers and trade unionists formed the core of the People’s (or Populist) party. Through case studies of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, Pierce examines the efforts of Ohio unions—especially the United Mine Workers —to protect the rights of workers, curb the abuses of corporations, and reform the state’s and nation’s government through an alliance with the People’s party.
Striking with the Ballot focuses on the Crisis of the 1890s: when the Panic of 1893, the Pullman strike and boycott, the arrest of Debs, Coxey’s march, and the failure of the nationwide coal strike threw the country into disarray. Pierce demonstrates that trade unionists in Ohio, and throughout the Industrial Midwest, responded by mobilizing politically under the banner of the People’s party. Support for the People’s party was so strong among the nation’s trade unionists that Ohio’s leading Populist, John McBride, won the presidency of the American Federation of Labor in 1894. Ohio labor’s reform agenda survived the subsequent collapse of the People’s party and informed labor’s political activity through the Progressive era. Pierce offers a provocative new narrative for those interested in labor history, Populism, Progressivism, and Ohio history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780875804187
ISBN-10: 0875804187
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 6
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
Colecția Northern Illinois University Press

Recenzii

“The author has done substantial research and is making a solid argument on a perennial, but still important, topic: who were the Populists? Pierce convincingly demonstrates that, contrary to much of the Populist historiography, Ohio’s Populist party did well with workers in urban areas.”—Charles Postel, San Francisco State University

“The author does a wonderful job of narrating the ins and outs of Ohio labor politics in the 1890s, combining extensive knowledge, sound historical judgment, and a vigorous and lucid writing style. . . . In short, the author’s study of Ohio labor Populism potentially fills a significant need in both labor and Populist scholarship.”—Kenneth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University 

Notă biografică

 Michael Pierce is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He is co-editor of Builders of Ohio: A Biographical History and co-author of In the Workers’ Interest: A History of the Ohio A.F.L.-C.I.O., 1958–1998.

Descriere

Historians have typically thought of Populism as a radical agrarian movement. In this much-needed corrective, Pierce argues that, in Ohio, Populism was an urban, not rural, movement and that industrial workers and trade unionists formed the core of the People’s (or Populist) party. Through case studies of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, Pierce examines the efforts of Ohio unions—especially the United Mine Workers —to protect the rights of workers, curb the abuses of corporations, and reform the state’s and nation’s government through an alliance with the People’s party.
Striking with the Ballot focuses on the Crisis of the 1890s: when the Panic of 1893, the Pullman strike and boycott, the arrest of Debs, Coxey’s march, and the failure of the nationwide coal strike threw the country into disarray. Pierce demonstrates that trade unionists in Ohio, and throughout the Industrial Midwest, responded by mobilizing politically under the banner of the People’s party. Support for the People’s party was so strong among the nation’s trade unionists that Ohio’s leading Populist, John McBride, won the presidency of the American Federation of Labor in 1894. Ohio labor’s reform agenda survived the subsequent collapse of the People’s party and informed labor’s political activity through the Progressive era. Pierce offers a provocative new narrative for those interested in labor history, Populism, Progressivism, and Ohio history.