Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs : : Unemployment in the Gilded Age / / Jerry Prout.
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 caused mi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 11 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION The Cause of the Unemployed
- CHAPTER ONE They Sleep on Marble Floors
- CHAPTER TWO The Good Roads Plan
- CHAPTER THREE A Millenarian Spectacle
- CHAPTER FOUR Through the Prism of the Argus-Eyed
- CHAPTER FIVE "Coxey is Coming"
- EPILOGUE The Crusade Continued
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index