# The Bread-winners: A Social Study

By John Hay.

"The Bread-winners: A Social Study" by John Hay is a novel published anonymously in 1883. When a violent general strike threatens an American city, wealthy Civil War veteran Captain Arthur Farnham organizes fellow veterans to maintain order against the Bread-winners, a group of discontented workers. Meanwhile, he navigates romantic entanglements with an ambitious carpenter's daughter and a woman of his own social class. This anti-labor novel sparked intense public speculation about its author's identity and reflected tensions between capital and labor in America's Gilded Age. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction; Industrial relations -- Fiction

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