The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Edited by Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. 258. $18.95.)

When Indiana State University hosted a centennial conference about the Pullman Strike in 1994, there were an amazing 36 presentations. Amazing, because outside of labor history the paralyzing train boycott in 1894 does not receive much ink. The editors of this ...