Haymarket Scrapbook

by Franklin Rosemont, David R. Roediger, Peter Linebaugh

Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago's Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition co-published with the Charles H. Kerr Company, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many of today's finest labor and radical historians focusing on Haymarket's enduring influence around the world—including the eight-hour workday. Franklin Rosemont (1943?–2009) was a labor historian and surrealist agitator. His most recent book Black, Brown, and Beige won the 2010 American Book Award. David Roediger is the author of How Race Survived US History and Wages of Whiteness .

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Politics

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Franklin Rosemont was co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Henry, was a labor activist. His mother, Sally, was a jazz musician.
He edited & wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of Andre Breton, & edited Rebel Worker, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, The Rise & Fall of the DIL Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot & Juice is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. With his wife, Penelope Rosemont, & Paul Garon he edited The Forecast is Hot!. His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a forward for Max Ernst & Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth) & of the radical labor movement in America, for instance, writing a biogaphy of Joe Hill.
He is the author of the poetry collections The Morning of a Machine Gun: Twenty Poems & Documents. Profusely Illustrated By the Author, The Apple of the Automatic Zebra's Eye, & Penelope: A Poem, as well as An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers, a book that explores the phenomenon of "wrong numbers" from a surrealist perspective, published by Black Swan Press in Chicago in 2003.
Rosemont and his wife urrently live in the East Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, managing the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, the world's oldest, continuously existing socialist publishing house.

Reviews

[Lady]

the bad binding job made my book fall apart years ago, or maybe it was all the photocopying images for show and party fliers.

[Ben Swart]

Very detailed and informative book about the judicial murder of comrades in chicago which inspired a whole new generation of struggle.

[Jeff]

A fantastic sourcebook for photos, drawings, articles, eye-witness accounts and expert historical analysis of the famous Haymarket Workers' Assembly. It describes the Anarchist Movement and labor leaders who inspired the peaceful assembly, the police leaders who marched on it, the mysterious bomb that was thrown at the police, the 8 leaders who were wrongly charged with conspiracy, the trial, the international campaign to free them, the execution, the funeral and the May Day legacy.