The Bread-Winners: A Social Study

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First Edition. First published as a serial in The Century Magazine from August 1883 to January 1884, this fictional account of the 1877 railroad strike was issued as the present book in 1884. BAL 7762; BLAKE, p. 212-3; WRIGHT 1112608.

John Hay, (1838-1905).
The Bread-Winners: A Social Study.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884.

Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/256703

A version of this text has been digitized and is available through the Internet Archive.

If you're interested in learning more about the historical events that inspired this novel, please refer to the links below:

"Railroad Strike of 1877" in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Case Western Reserve University, 2023.

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