Pullman Strike

Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.

How Eugene V. Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom.

The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.

Why does the government have the power to break massive union strikes? Part of the story is a history of conciliatory railway unionism.

The railroad company remains a site for Americans to grapple with key questions about the nature of American capitalism.

Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions.

Some rail unions are resisting government pressure to accept a new employment contract, but history suggests the authorities will keep the trains running.

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.

Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.

He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.

After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation's new anti-sedition laws.

Despite his reputation as a liberal, Dewey's staunch commitment to democracy put him on a collision course with capitalism.

Remembering the radical past of a day now devoted to picnics and back-to-school sales.

Clarence Darrow’s unfinished work.