"A pretty fair representation of the American people" : the great uprising and pictorial order in Gilded Age America / Joshua Brown -- "Our rights as workingmen" : class traditions and collective action in a nineteenth-century railroad town, Hornellsville, N.Y., 1869-82 / Shelton Stromquist --...

Sam Hammersmark's Chicago -- Revolutionary recruitment: numbers and experience -- "True revolutionaries": Chicago's party culture in thought and action -- Red relief -- "Abolish capitalism": the Trade Union Unity League's potential and problems -- "Generals are of no use without an army": how...

This study provides new answers to one of the most perplexing questions facing historians of labor and of the South: why were workers so resistant to the efforts of unions and liberals to reform the region? Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf add evangelical Protestantism to the narrative of how...