Railroad Strike of 1877

 
 
 
 
Tactics used by both the strikers and the companies in the railroad strike of 1877 tended to be excessive and to undercut any legitimate efforts to find common ground. The strike essentially demonstrated that there was a need for a more reasonable method for addressing disputes between labor and management. In one sense, this is what the strikers wanted in the first place, though they lacked the leadership that could formulate and raise the question. Indeed, the very spontaneity of the strike showed the power of the forces motivating the strikers and the depth of feeling that their grievances had caused, but it also meant that much of what happened could not be called "tactics" given that they were more the actions of an angry crowd. It may be that some of the violence was indeed perpetrated by a crimina


     
 
 
 
    

 

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