Los Angeles! There she blows! by Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's classic 1930 essay on the origins and development of Los Angeles. For those who saw this mentioned in Mike Davis' City Of Quartz…
The Haywood-Mayer-Pettibone case - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's excellent history of the trial and acquittal of three leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood and…
The Mooney-Billings frame-up - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's fascinating history of the framing of union organisers Tom Mooney and Warren Billings of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day…
Battles in the Telluride mines, 1901-1903 - Louis Adamic A short history of the striking workers who took over the mines in Telluride, Colorado, and the…
The Molly Maguires, 1850-1875 - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's history of the Molly Maguires: a secret society of Irish-born mine workers in the US who terrorised the exploitative mine bosses…
The Knights of Labor, 1869-1885 - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's short history of the Knights of Labor union and some of its key disputes from its founding in 1869 until its successful railway…
Dynamite: the story of class violence in America - Louis Adamic Complete PDF of Louis Adamic's superb history of class violence in the US. It traces the origins of…
"Dynamite... That’s the Stuff" - Louis Adamic Selections from Chapter 2 of "Dynamite: the Story of Class Violence in America" on the condition of the American working class in the late 19th…
1892: The Homestead Strike Extracts from Louis Adamic, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman describing the Homestead Strike in 1892, and the circumstances of Berkman’s shooting of Henry Clay Frick, the head of the Carnegie Steel Company’s strike-breaking operation.
The great "bootleg" coal industry - Louis Adamic A fascinating look at an alternative 'economic strategy' in US mining communities during the 1930s Depression.
Sabotage and striking on the job - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia at age 14 and was naturalized in 1918. This essay describes his experiences as a…
