How Long to Read The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor

How Long Does it Take to Read The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 56 minutes to read The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor by Theresa A. Case

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Focusing on a story largely untold until now, Theresa A. Case studies the "Great Southwest Strike of 1886," which pitted entrepreneurial freedom against the freedom of employees to have a collective voice in their workplace. This series of local actions involved a historic labor agreement followed by the most massive sympathy strike the nation had ever seen. It attracted western railroaders across lines of race and skill, contributed to the rise and decline of the first mass industrial union in U.S. history (the Knights of Labor), and brought new levels of federal intervention in railway strikes. Case takes a fresh look at the labor unrest that shook Jay Gould's railroad empire in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois. In Texas towns and cities like Marshall, Dallas, Fort Worth, Palestine, Texarkana, Denison, and Sherman, union recognition was the crucial issue of the day. Case also powerfully portrays the human facets of this strike, reconstructing the story of Martin Irons, a Scottish immigrant who came to adopt the union cause as his own. Irons committed himself wholly to the failed strike of 1886, continuing to urge violence even as courts handed down injunctions protecting the railroads, national union leaders publicly chastised him, the press demonized him, and former strikers began returning to work. Irons’s individual saga is set against the backdrop of social, political, and economic changes that transformed the region in the post–Civil War era. Students, scholars, and general readers interested in railroad, labor, social, or industrial history will not want to be without The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor.

How long is The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor?

The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor by Theresa A. Case is 293 pages long, and a total of 74,129 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 45 minutes to read The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor aloud.

What Reading Level is The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor?

The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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