| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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James Green. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. Pp. 383. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $26.95.

On the evening of May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a workers' rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square. Dozens of police officers were injured and seven died of their wounds. Rally participants also suffered casualties. Among the victims was the labor movement itself. The bombing triggered cries for revenge, as the police unleashed a witch hunt against labor organizers and immigrant workers. Convicted by the press and public opinion before their trial began, four anarchist workers went to the gallows. The events in Chicago—the labor conflict known as the "Great Upheaval" in the spring of 1886, the Haymarket bombing, and the ensuing red scare, trial, and hangings—mark one of the most dramatic episodes in America's emergence as a modern industrial society.

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