The Bread-winners: A Social Study by John Hay

"The Bread-winners: A Social Study" by John Hay is a novel published anonymously in 1883. When a violent general strike threatens an American city, wealthy Civil War veteran Captain Arthur Farnham organizes fellow veterans to maintain order against the Bread-winners, a group of discontented workers. Meanwhile, he navigates romantic entanglements with an ambitious carpenter's daughter and a woman of his own social class. This anti-labor novel sparked intense public speculation about its author's identity and reflected tensions between capital and labor in America's Gilded Age. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hay, John, 1838-1905
Title The Bread-winners: A Social Study
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bread-Winners
Credits E-text prepared by Michael Gray (Lost_Gamer@comast.net)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction
Subject Industrial relations -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 16321
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Most Recently Updated Dec 12, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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