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Paul Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history, intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology to situate the events of the lockout and their significance in the broad context of America’s Guilded Age. Utilizing extensive archival material, much of it heretofore unknown, he reconstructs the social, intellectual, and political climate of the burgeoning post-Civil War steel industry.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Pittsburgh Press; 1st edition (June 23, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 584 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0822954664
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0822954668
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.6 x 9.25 inches

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Allan Lindner

A very thorough examination.

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This book is a must for anyone who wants an understanding of the relationship between management, labor and politics during "Gilded Age" America as well as a detailed history of the Homestead, PA steelworks from 1880 to 1892 and the unique management/labor and political relationship that evolved there. The well known lockout/strike of 1892 is covered in detail. The book describes the interaction of leading figures in both management, labor and government in this arena. Particularly interesting is the explanation of engineering and technological improvements of the time and the way these impacted (and continue to impact) the management/worker relationship of that time as well as ours. Also appreciated was the explanation of wage system in place then, without which it is difficult to understand labor grievances. When you read this book, you realize how much inferior other books on the same subject area are.

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L. Fenwick

A wonderful history of a nearly forgotten event

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I am writing a book about the last two decades of the 19th century, centered on a journal kept by a Kansas Homesteader named Isaac. Isaac was active in the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, in which farmers and laborers came together politically. I have done research on the Homestead lockout for my book, but I found Krause's book particularly detailed and interesting to read. It is an event Americans should remember, and this is a good book to remind them.

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Scott Shine

A tedious slog but with some redeeming value as scholarship

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Author Paul Krause examines the famous late 19th century struggle that pit unions and their supporters against steel mill owners, including Andrew Carnegie, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. He attempts to place the conflict in the context of republican political theory; post-Civil War partisan politics, including nativism; and changing technology. While the author occasionally provides enough sound analysis to introduce readers to the causes and consequences of the unequal contest between labor and management, the book suffers from three major defects—a disjointed narrative, unnecessarily arcane and pretentious justifications for his pro-labor interpretation of events, and excessive repetition.

With respect to narrative disarray, one of the book’s many examples will suffice. In Chapter 12, Krause tells the story of the successful workers’ strike that took place at Homestead in 1882, before Andrew Carnegie owned the plant. The author appears to complete the story about half way through the chapter only to restart the narrative with a new set of anecdotes. The chapter’s second half merely identifies additional participants or provides more disconnected details about previously mentioned participants. This chapter has not been highlighted because it represents one of the worst examples, but because it represents one of the least mangled and most understandable sequences.

Equally damaging to the cause of readable and persuasive prose, the author tries to inflate basic human desires into heroic grandeur. He presents workers, for example, as champions of traditional republican theory. The author’s claim that a laborer’s desire to have work and make a decent living is rooted in republican theory may be worth a journal article or merit a few paragraphs in the preface, but it adds an unnecessary layer of rhetorical flourish to fundamentally economic issues. Likewise, the author tries to transmute the anger of Homestead women who beat or shrieked at Pinkerton agents during the 1892 lockout into a political “assertion of their power and rights, of their place and stake in the workers’ republic… [and into a refusal] to be domesticated, interiorized, or harnessed for the purpose of lovely embroidery” (326) It seems more likely that their rage came from bitterness, not nobility.

Excessive repetition also weakens the book’s arguments and makes for a grindingly difficult read. Apart from relentless and overwrought justifications for a workers’ republic, unions, and laborers’ occasionally violent tactics, the author repeats several quotes and countless phrases. Most of the repetitions were brief and therefore difficult to recover. An obvious example was his use of the same long passage from the poem “Peter Puddler” on pages 117 and 221. It often seemed as if Krause believed he had something important to say but lost his thread and fell back on what he had said earlier.

This apparently well-researched volume has valuable and pertinent details about political and social influences of the labor movement in the Pennsylvania steel industry in the late 19th century. Unfortunately, readers must sort through disorganized data, ignore theoretical pretensions, and filter out repetition to find the nuggets.

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