The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy

by Michael Dennis and Michael Dennis

Book Overview

This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134938089X
• ISBN13: 9781349380893
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"