| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

The Great Strikes of 1877. Ed. by David O. Stowell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 197 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03241-7. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07477-6.)

For labor historians, the great strike of 1877 has long served as an iconic moment in the history of American industrial relations. When disgruntled Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers walked off the job in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to protest yet another wage cut, they triggered unprecedented levels of labor protest across the nation. Collectively, the ensuing strikes represented, in David O. Stowell's words, "one of the most spectacular and frightening episodes of collective violence in American history," which, along with the repression it provoked, had "profound repercussions for American culture and society" (pp. 2, 8).

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