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The St. Louis Commune of 1877
2021
Overview
Following the Civil War, large corporations emerged in the United
States and became intent on maximizing their power and profits at
all costs. Political corruption permeated American society as those
corporate entities grew and spread across the country, leaving
bribery and exploitation in their wake. This alliance between
corporate America and the political class came to a screeching halt
during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, when the U.S. workers in
the railroad, mining, canal, and manufacturing industries called a
general strike against monopoly capitalism and brought the country
to an economic standstill. In The St. Louis Commune of
1877 Mark Kruger tells the riveting story of how workers
assumed political control in St. Louis, Missouri. Kruger examines
the roots of the St. Louis Commune-focusing on the 1848 German
revolution, the Paris Commune, and the First International. Not
only was 1877 the first instance of a general strike in U.S.
history; it was also the first time workers took control of a major
American city and the first time a city was ruled by a communist
party.
Publisher
Bison Books,University of Nebraska Press,University of Nevada Press
Subject
/ Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
/ Forty-Eighters (American immigrants)
/ Forty-Eighters (American immigrants) -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
/ General Strike, Saint Louis, Mo., 1877
/ HISTORY
/ International Workingmen’s Association (1864–1876)
/ Missouri
/ Socialism -- History -- 19th century
/ Socialism -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History -- 19th century
/ Working class -- Economic conditions -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
/ Working class -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
ISBN
9781496228130, 1496228138
