1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part Two)

When a railroad employee walks off the job in Baltimore, it triggers a violent chain of events that engulfs the industrialized North. From Pittsburgh to San Francisco, city after city erupts in rioting and street battles as railroad men, factory workers, and the unemployed take on militias, paramilitary groups, and the US Army in a spontaneous revolt against the new industrial order. Railyards burn and urban neighborhoods become battlegrounds. Pundits, politicians, corporate leaders, socialists, and union leaders hail the birth of an exterminationist class war. And through the smoke, the dawn of a new era can be glimpsed...

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1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part Two) is an episode from Inward Empire by Inward Empire.

This episode is 170:02 long.

This episode was published on Dec 24, 2016.

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