100. If You Love Communism So Much, Move to St. Louis

This week, David hosts and teaches Madeline all about the 1877 Train-Workers Strike and how it led to St. Louis being a commune for like three or four days?

PATREON:

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BOOK:

http://tinyurl.com/ymzv3xas

SOURCES:

Phililp Foner, The Great Labor Uprising of 1877

Robert Bruce, 1877: Year Of Violence

Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream

Leon Fink, Workingman’s Democracy

Kevein Kenny, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires

Bruce Laurie, Artisans into Workers

Anthony Bimba, The Molly Maguires

David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor

Mark Kruger, The St. Louis Commune of 1877

Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles, Labor in America