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Book Title: Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons : The American Strike of 1919, Its Causes and the Labor Unions Involved
Item Length: 9in.
Item Height: 0.3in.
Item Width: 6in.
Author: William Z. Foster
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Labor & Industrial Relations, General, United States / General
Publisher: Pantianos Classics
Publication Year: 2018
Genre: History, Literary Collections, Political Science
Item Weight: 7.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 146 Pages
