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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1264

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Scott D. Seligman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640124101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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2020-21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner 2020 National Jewish Book Award, Finalist 2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist in the U.S. History category 2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Finalist In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kosher meat that they were being gouged, they assembled in squads of five, intent on shutting down every kosher butcher shop in New York's Jewish quarter. What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. Customers who crossed the picket lines were heckled and assaulted and their parcels of meat hurled into the gutters. Butchers who remained open were attacked, their windows smashed, stock ruined, equipment destroyed. Brutal blows from police nightsticks sent women to local hospitals and to court. But soon Jewish housewives throughout the area took to the streets in solidarity, while the butchers either shut their doors or had their doors shut for them. The newspapers called it a modern Jewish Boston Tea Party. The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated women immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices. With few resources and little experience but steely determination, this group of women organized themselves into a potent fighting force and, in their first foray into the political arena in their adopted country, successfully challenged powerful, vested corporate interests and set a pattern for future generations to follow.

Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1022

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Author: Scott Molloy
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584656302
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A groundbreaking study of public transportation in the Gilded Age and its place in the emerging American city

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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1056

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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1150

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1156

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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.