ABSTRACT
In the early morning of July 6, 1892, barge-loads of blue-clad Pinkerton detectives moved slowly up the Monongahela River. They were on their way to Homestead, Pennsylvania, to break the strike waged against the Carnegie steel companies by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers. The strike had been called when Carnegie summarily refused to renew his contracts with the union; it was a strike for recognition, for the right to bargain collectively with the management through representatives of the men’s own choosing.
