Project Gutenberg 2011-05-05 Public domain in the USA. 188 Foster, William Z. 1881 1961 Foster, Wm. Z. (William Zebulon) 20026587 The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons Produced by Odessa Paige Turner, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons" by William Z. Foster is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book explores the 1919 steel strike in the United States, detailing the struggles of over 365,000 steel workers advocating for better working conditions, including an eight-hour workday and the right to organize. Written by a leader within the labor movement, it serves both as a detailed narrative of the events and an analysis of the failures and lessons learned from the strike. At the start of the text, Foster outlines the dire conditions faced by steel workers, including long hours, low wages, and a lack of rights in negotiating their contracts. He highlights the overwhelming power of the steel companies, which maintained control through repression and espionage, effectively quashing any attempts at labor organization. The author reflects on the causes of the strike and portrays it as part of a larger struggle for industrial democracy versus autocracy within the steely grip of corporate interests. Foster emphasizes that while the strike ended in defeat, it ignited a newfound confidence among workers, setting the stage for future organizing efforts in the labor movement. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/36032/36032-h/images/cover.jpg en Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920 United States Steel Corporation HD Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics Browsing: Sociology 531313 525890 2024-09-15T09:42:22.252595 2023-09-16T03:40:53.457169 text/html text/html 535472 2011-05-05T12:29:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1414545 2011-05-05T12:29:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1417577 2024-09-15T09:42:31.509536 application/epub+zip 1421824 2024-09-15T09:42:23.806569 application/epub+zip 267274 2024-09-15T09:42:22.988576 application/epub+zip 1566099 2024-09-15T09:42:37.118485 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1522314 2024-09-15T09:42:30.269581 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 374622 2022-09-16T13:06:48.584794 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 466842 466610 2024-09-15T09:42:21.174561 2023-09-16T03:40:52.457163 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 466755 2011-05-05T12:29:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 169686 2011-05-05T12:29:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 466746 2011-05-05T12:29:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 169668 2011-05-05T12:29:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20500 2024-09-15T09:42:37.279473 application/rdf+xml 8295 2024-09-15T09:42:23.109570 image/jpeg 1209 2024-09-15T09:42:23.048556 image/jpeg 1430237 2024-09-15T09:42:22.321591 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog