"Not only brings to life the dramatic events and places them within an analytical context, but it also provides rich biographical studies of key players on all sides, from Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick to labor activists 'Beewax' Taylor and John Mcluckie."

--Peter Rachleff

University of Pittsburgh Press, Web Site, May, 2001

Paul Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history, intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology to situate the events of the lockout and their significance in the broad context of America's Guilded Age. Utilizing extensive archival material, much of it heretofore unknown, he reconstructs the social, intellectual, and political climate of the burgeoning post-Civil War steel industry.