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Chapter 19 - Big Business and Organized Labor

Images and Maps

Driving the Last Spike
(An image from the completion of the first transcontinental railroad)

Central Pacific Railroad: Photographic History Museum

Railroad Maps, 1828-1900

Central Pacific Railroad Maps

Map of Transcontinental Railroads, c. 1900

Transportation and Communication

Union Pacific Railroad Photo Gallery

Andrew Carnegie: A Tribute

John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company

The Rockefellers

Richard Warren Sears

Coal Mining in Illinois

The Westinghouse World: The Companies, the People, and the Places

The Steel Workers: Volume 3 of The Pittsburgh Survey.

"Making Steel and Killing Men"

Today in History: National Labor Union and Knights of Labor

"The Perfect Town": Pullman Historic District

Samuel Gompers Papers: Photo Gallery

Joe Hill and Other Labor Protesters

The Pullman Strike: Chicago, 1894

Pullman Strike

 

Primary Sources

H. D. Lloyd, "Story of a Great Monopoly"
(From the Atlantic Monthly)

The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress

Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone

Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

Ida M. Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company

Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," 1889

Andrew Carnegie, "The Gospel of Wealth," 1889

Race and Racism at the 1886 Knights of Labor Convention

Cleveland Moffett, "The Overthrow of the Molly Maguires," 1894

The Strike at Homestead, 1892

The Homestead Strike, 1892

"I Will Kill Frick": Emma Goldman Recounts the Attempt to Assassinate the Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company During the Homestead Strike in 1892

Eugene Debs, "The Issue," 23 May 1908

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, "Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)"

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, "Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency"

Preamble: Industrial Workers of the World

Famous American Trials: Bill Haywood Trial, 1907

 

Secondary Sources

Joseph H. Bloom, "Undermining the Molly Maguires"

Labor History Articles

The Dramas of Haymarket
(This site contains numerous images as well.)

 

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