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The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. By David Ray Papke. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xiv, 118. $25.00.)

This book provides an excellent, succinct account of the legal issues surrounding the celebrated 1894 Pullman Strike. This book is primarily a work of legal history, for, although the author provides a solid overview of both the strike itself and the broader economic parameters of the struggle between big business and organized labor, this is not labor history per se. Rather, David Ray Papke deems the case important ...