The Great Cowboy Strike : Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West
Editorial Verso Books
Fecha de edición septiembre 2017 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781786631961
304 páginas
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Resumen del libro
Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines those neglected labour conflicts, couching them in the context of the bitter and violent "range wars" that broke out periodically across the region, and locating both among the political insurgencies endemic to the American West in the so-called Gilded Age.
