Title: The Edge of Anarchy Pdf The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
Author: Jack Kelly
Published Date: 2019-01-08
Page: 320
"Easy reading...A skilled craftsman...Kelly’s writing is vivid, especially in its depiction of Debs and Pullman." ―Robert D. Parmet, New York Labor History Association "Timely...Kelly tells this story with exhilaration...[The Edge of Anarchy] is not only a wonderful distillation of why the 1894 Pullman strike still matters, but it also presents an excellent overview of what life was like in 1894―full of technological promise, and yet riddled with class conflict and economic warfare." ―New York Journal of Books"Masterful." ―Railroad History"Kelly vividly portrays the personalities involved, from elected officials to labor leaders, and makes the tensions of the time quite contemporary." ―Booklist (starred review)"Kelly's vigorous narrative serves well to set down the facts of a turbulent, little-known history." ―Kirkus Reviews"A vivid account of a tumultuous era." ―Nick Salvatore, author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist"In gripping detail, The Edge of Anarchy reminds us of what a pivotal figure Eugene V. Debs was in the history of American labor, a man who spoke to wealthy business owners without fear. The story of his battles with George Pullman and other powerful corporate titans is a tale of courage and the steadfast pursuit of principles at great personal risk." ―Tom Clavin, author of Dodge City "Jack Kelly’s remarkable new book, Ragged Edge, explores an era of our industrial and labor history with remarkable parallels to our own moment: ascendant forces of all-powerful capital, a government beholden to it, new labor movements emerging from the ashes of older ones, populist uprisings on the left and right, political polarization, and a working class divided to its detriment by issues of race and status. Kelly writes history with the storytelling prowess of a novelist or screenwriter, making forgotten subject matter newly accessible and exciting. Think Erik Larson meets Howard Zinn." ―David Rolf, President SEIU 775; Author of Fight for $15: The Right Wage for a Working America (New Press, 2016)"Pay attention, because Jack Kelly’s Ragged Edge not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." ―Brian Alexander, author of Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town JACK KELLY is a journalist, novelist, and historian, whose books include Band of Giants, which received the DAR's History Award Medal, and Heaven's Ditch. He has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, and other national periodicals, and is a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. He has appeared on The History Channel and been interviewed on National Public Radio. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.
"Timely and urgent...The core of The Edge of Anarchy is a thrilling description of the boycott of Pullman cars and equipment by Eugene Debs’s fledgling American Railway Union..." ―The New York Times
"During the summer of 1894, the stubborn and irascible Pullman became a central player in what the New York Times called “the greatest battle between labor and capital [ever] inaugurated in the United States.” Jack Kelly tells the fascinating tale of that terrible struggle." ―The Wall Street Journal
"Pay attention, because The Edge of Anarchy not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." ―Brian Alexander, author of Glass House
"In gripping detail, The Edge of Anarchy reminds us of what a pivotal figure Eugene V. Debs was in the history of American labor... a tale of courage and the steadfast pursuit of principles at great personal risk." ―Tom Clavin, New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City
The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America.
The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities.
This epochal tale offers fascinating portraits of two iconic characters of the age. George Pullman, who amassed a fortune by making train travel a pleasure, thought the model town that he built for his workers would erase urban squalor. Eugene Debs, founder of the nation’s first industrial union, was determined to wrench power away from the reigning plutocrats. The clash between the two men’s conflicting ideals pushed the country to what the U.S. Attorney General called “the ragged edge of anarchy.”
Many of the themes of The Edge of Anarchy could be taken from today’s headlines―upheaval in America’s industrial heartland, wage stagnation, breakneck technological change, and festering conflict over race, immigration, and inequality. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back at the violent conflict of an earlier era offers illuminating perspectives along with a breathtaking story of a nation on the edge.
The Edge Of Anarchy Is Here Once Again; But This Time It's Global! The best reason to get Jack Kelly's new book is it shines a spotlight on our current gilded age. Law is center to both the gilded age's ruling class authority; for it hangs men[& women] whose views & actions challenge the privileged ownership class[the book tells of the four labor men hanged on November 11, 1887].The Haymarket Massacre was the aftermath of a bombing[police provocateur?] that took place at a labor demonstration in Haymarket Square, Chicago. The workers were striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to several workers killed by police the previous day. Mother Jones spoke right to the heart of the problem then and now/The working class and the employment class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people; while the few who make up the ownership class, have all the good things of life. Pray for the dead; fight for the living. In Kelly's book there's a great part where a former marble cutter urges all his labor members to oppose plutocratic enslavement and to fight tyranny and the tyrant. In Kelly's book there's a reference to the Pullman boycott as a reason for Labor day being the first Monday in September. The author's reference, in point of fact, points out that the legislation had already been out of the Senate committee months before the Pullman walkout. Left unsaid by the author; however, is that the congress was trying to divide and conquer May Day celebrations worldwide[held May 1st for centuries]. So the U.S government moved it, by the stroke of a pen, to September pretending May Day was a Russian holiday[always employing deception]!If the reader hasn't guessed it yet; the author focuses on the Pullman Strike to juxtaposition striking similarities between the later19th century gilded age, and our current early 21st century's gilded age. Although the author doesn't tell the reader specifically; the reader cannot but help himself, or herself from making the comparisons: from the fake news then, to the fake news of today; from the plutocrims then, to the plutocrims now; from the corporation is a person Supreme Court decision in 1886, to the corporation is a person Supreme Court decision in 2009; to the ruling monopolies then; to the ruling monopolies now; to the awe inspiring magical technologies then; to the magical technologies now; to the heart breaking inequalities then; to the heart breaking inequalities today; to the shift from local to national to international then, to the shift from local to national to international now; to the fight is on cry then, that at no time in the history of the nation was the issue between labor and corporations so sharply drawn an well defined - to the fight is on cry today, heard worldwide, as concentrated capital puts a stranglehold on workers everywhere. As I write this, the Yellow Vests are spreading outwards from France.The edge of anarchy is here once again; but this time it's global!Debs put it simply/The Government ownership of railroads is decidedly better for the peopled than railroad ownership of Government.In 1918 a jury convicted Debs of treason for speaking out. After sentencing Debs said/Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings. While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.When the government intervened to kill the labor movement he said/In the gleam of every bayonet and flash of every rifle the class struggle is revealed.[P.S.] Actually, just prior to WW1 the Wobblies[Industrial Workers of the World] were making the ruling class/bankers very nervous. The international banking cartel and other global puppet masters engineered a world war to put a bayonet in those workers' hands and had them go at each other. Besides solving that pesky labor problem; they also solved the growing global debt crisis[sound familiar?]. Plus, they also got to carve up the world; while they engineered a new globalized corporatism on steroids, at Bretton Woods. In this analyses, the primary economic focus is the contrast between production[real economy] & extraction[parasite economy]. In the afore mentioned economic fight - the parasites won.Interesting time in American history Very good writing and glimpse into a turbulent time in our history.
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