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This 3 page paper is a review of the book by James R. Green detailing the labor movement and the circumstances surrounding and following the infamous May 3 1886 rioting and bombing in Chicago.
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The American Labor Movement has a long and turbulent history, a history that is partially detailed by author James R.
Green in his book "Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America". Greens focus pivots around one
bloody chapter of the American Labor Movement, on the events and circumstances leading up to the May 4, 1886 rioting and bombing in Chicago and the trial and persecution that
followed that bombing. To this day no one knows who was responsible for the bomb and the deaths it inflicted. Although they were subsequently determined innocent, the lives
of four men that were accused in the incident were non-the-less taken. They were hanged and another committed suicide. Only two of the original six that were accused
survived to finally receive pardons some seven years later. The Haymarket affair left behind is remembered to this day as one of the goriest events of the labor movement.
Greens (2007) book allows us to understand that the circumstances leading up to the catastrophic day in May 1886 were complex
to say the least. The workers who were rioting in the streets werent after blood, they were simply after better working conditions and more equitable pay. Indeed, not
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