Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago's Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition co-published with the Charles H. Kerr Company, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many of today's finest labor and radical historians focusing on Haymarket's enduring influence around the world—including the eight-hour workday.
Franklin Rosemont
(1943?–2009) was a labor historian and surrealist agitator. His most recent book
Surrealism: Black, Brown, and Beige
won the 2010 American Book Award.
David Roediger
is the author of
How Race Survived US History
and
Wages of Whiteness
.