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Dynamite The Story of Class Violence in America Louis Adamic

Dynamite The Story of Class Violence in America Louis Adamic found here The history of labor in the United States is a story of almost continuous violence. In Dynamite , Louis Adamic recounts one century of that history in vivid, carefully researched detail. Covering both well- and lesser-known events—from the riots of immigrant workers in the second quarter of the nineteenth century to the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)—he gives precise, and often brutal, meaning to the term "class war." As its title suggests, Dynamite refuses to sugarcoat the explosive and bloody legacy of the US labor movement. While quite clear that the causes of class violence lay with both the nature of capitalism and the specific policies of US industrialists, Adamic offers no apologies for the violent tactics workers employed in response. When peaceful strikes failed to yield results, working men and women fought back by any means necessary. The violent methods they used were often the only way that social injustices—from "ordinary" exploitation to massacres and judicial murder—could become visible, let alone be addressed. This AK Press edition of Adamic's revised 1934 version o

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