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The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel. By Paul Krause. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. xiv + 548 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8229-3702-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8229-5466-4.)
Paul Krause has produced the definitive work on the Homestead, Pennsylvania, steel strike of 1892. He provides exceptional detail about the events leading to the strike, the carnage that occurred on the Monongahela riverbank on July 6, and the subsequent disappearance of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers from the American labor scene. The data that he has uncovered and his skillful analysis correct a number of misinterpretations and simple errors of fact that were perpetrated by the original biographer of this infamous event, Arthur G. Burgoyne, in The Homestead Strike of 1892, originally published in 1893. Henceforth, anyone interested in the...