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New Looks at Workers' Response to Industrialism - Theresa A Case. The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. xii + 279 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60344-170-4. - John P Enyeart. The Quest for “Just and Pure Law”: Rocky Mountain Workers and American Social Democracy, 1870–1924. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xvi + 326 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-4986-2. - James D Schmidt. Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv + 279 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19865-3; $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-15505-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2011

Donald W. Rogers*
Affiliation:
Central Connecticut State University

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2011

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