Coxey's crusade for jobs : unemployment in the Gilded Age

Coxey's crusade for jobs : unemployment in the Gilded Age /

"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 cau...

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Main Author: Prout, Jerry (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dekalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Coxey, Jacob Sechler, > 1854-1951.
Coxey, Jacob Sechler, > 1854-1951
Coxey's Army.
Coxey's Army
1800-1899
Labor > United States > History > 19th century.
Unemployment > United States > History > 19th century.
Working class > United States > History > 19th century.
Unemployed > United States > History > 19th century.
HISTORY > United States > 19th century.
Labor
Unemployed
Unemployment
Working class
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Introduction-The Cause of the Unemployed
  • 1-They Sleep on Marble Floors
  • 2-The Good Roads Plan
  • 3-A Millenarian Spectacle
  • 4-Through the Prism of the Argus-Eyed
  • 5-â#x80;#x9C;Coxey Is Comingâ#x80;#x9D;
  • Epilogue-The Crusade Continued
  • Notes
  • Bibliography

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