{"product_id":"striking-with-the-ballot-ohio-labor-and-the-populist-party-hardback-9780875804187","title":"Striking with the Ballot; Ohio Labor and the Populist Party (Hardback) 9780875804187","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStriking with the Ballot\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOhio Labor and the Populist Party\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Pierce (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780875804187\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 March 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author has done substantial research and is making a solid argument on a perennial, but still important, topic: who were the Populists? Pierce convincingly demonstrates that, contrary to much of the Populist historiography, Ohio's Populist Party did well with workers in urban areas.\u003c\/p\u003e - Charles Postel, San Francisco State University \u003cp\u003eThe author does a wonderful job of narrating the ins and outs of Ohio labor politics in the 1890s, combining extensive knowledge, sound historical judgment, and a vigorous and lucid writing style.... In short, the author's study of Ohio labor Populism potentially fills a significant need in both labor and Populist scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e - Kenneth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistorians have typically thought of Populism as a radical agrarian movement.\u003c\/b\u003e In this much-needed corrective, Pierce argues that, in Ohio, Populism was an urban, not rural, movement, and that industrial workers and trade unionists formed the core of the People's (or Populist) Party. Through case studies of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, Pierce examines the efforts of Ohio unions—especially the United Mine Workers—to protect the rights of workers, curb the abuses of corporations, and reform the state's and nation's government through an alliance with the People's party. \u003ci\u003eStriking with the Ballot\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the Crisis of the 1890s: when the Panic of 1893, the Pullman strike and boycott, the arrest of Debs, Coxey's march, and the failure of the nationwide coal strike threw the country into disarray. Pierce demonstrates that trade unionists in Ohio, and throughout the Industrial Midwest, responded by mobilizing politically under the banner of the People's Party. Support for the People's Party was so strong among the nation's trade unionists that Ohio's leading Populist, John McBride, won the presidency of the American Federation of Labor in 1894. Ohio labor's reform agenda survived the subsequent collapse of the People's Party and informed labor's political activity through the Progressive era. Pierce offers a provocative new narrative for those interested in labor history, Populism, Progressivism, and Ohio history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584753725720,"sku":"9780875804187","price":28.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/striking-with-the-ballot-ohio-labor-and-the-populist-party-hardback-9780875804187","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}