| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Canada and the United States

David O. Stowell. Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877. (Historical Studies of Urban America.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 181. Cloth $31.00, paper $15.00.

The national railroad strike of 1877, the "Great Strike," has often been viewed, similarly to other labor upheavals, as a struggle between employees and employers in a time of industrial depression, an example of class conflict between workers and a capitalistic oligarchy. Robert V. Bruce in his seminal 1959 work on the Great Strike suggested that the event was more complicated, that railroads in the period were creating a new urban age, and in their relationships with cities lay some of the key factors underlying the strike. . . .

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