Coxey's crusade for jobs : unemployment in the Gilded Age / Jerry Prout.

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"In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Though a financial panic and the resulting widespread business failures caused millio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Prout, Jerry (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Dekalb : NIU Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Coxey, Jacob Sechler, > 1854-1951. Coxey's Army. Labor > United States > History > 19th century. Unemployment > United States > History > 19th century. Working class > United States > History > 19th century. Unemployed > United States > History > 19th century. HISTORY > United States > 19th Century. Labor. Unemployed. Unemployment. Working class. United States. 1800-1899 History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

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