Describes the violent 1892 strike at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania, which tarnished his reputation as a benevolent employer. From the companion site to the PBS program.
The Battle of Homestead Foundation was formed in 1996 to promote the Pump House of the old Homestead steel works as a labor history monument. Information on the strike, the foundation, scheduled events, and membership.
Radical activist Emma Goldman recounts the attempt to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, the chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, during the Homestead Strike in 1892. Part of the History Matters web site of resources for teaching history.
Louis Adamic and Emma Goldman give short accounts of the strike, and anarchist Alexander Berkman tells how he shot Carnegie Steel official Henry Clay Frick.
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