labor disputes

"Tells the story of J. P. Morgan, a banker, and Theodore Roosevelt, the president, who were thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the coal miners strike and the antitrust casewould change the course of history"--Adapted from dust jacket.

In 1927, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends.

In the 1870's in Massachusetts, Molly befriends, despite her family's disapproval, one of the Chinese workers brought in to replace striking employees at her father's shoe factory.

Chronicles the contentious, protracted, and deadly labor struggle between powerful corporations and 50,000 mine workers, their families, and advocates such as Mother Jones for unionization and civil rights in West Virginia during the early 1900s.

Cites cases in which the American worker-employer relationship has given rise to violence.

Relates seven historical episodes which demonstrate how the struggle for justice has been a part of the heritage of the people of Appalachia.

Examines the social and political impact of industrialization during the late nineteenth century, describing strikes, child labor laws, the Populist Party, immigrant factory workers, and economic growth.

A young girl and her older sister, working in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, an early twentieth-century sweatshop on the Lower East Side of New York City, join a protest to try to improve the miserable working conditions.