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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