Eric Eggen

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The strike demonstrated that Homestead’s owners could not run their business without skilled workers. Production plummeted. The mill lost customers due to inferior products, and Homestead missed contracts, opening the owners to lawsuits.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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