Homestead Strike: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Homestead riot
Date	July 1892
Location	Homestead • Pennsylvania • United States

Photos

Homestead Strike, July 1892

Homestead Steel Works

Portrait of Henry Clay Frick with a full white beard and mustache, wearing a dark suit and tie, looking directly at the camera.

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Topics

organized labour Carnegie Steel Company Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Key People

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist

Portrait of Henry Clay Frick with a full white beard and mustache, wearing a dark suit and tie, looking directly at the camera.

Henry Clay Frick

American industrialist and philanthropist