The Coal Miners' Struggle for Industrial Status
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Author | : Arthur Elliott Suffern |
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Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Coal miners |
ISBN | : 9780891977032 |
Author | : Arthur Elliott Suffern |
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Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Coal miners |
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Author | : Arthur Elliott Suffern |
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Total Pages | : 462 |
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Author | : Committee of Coal Mine Managers |
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Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Coal Miners' Strike, Colo |
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Author | : James Green |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0802192092 |
“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Author | : Barbara Ellen Smith |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1642593931 |
Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal industry. Barbara Ellen Smith’s essential study, now with an updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in 1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor, mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their own graves.
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Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Coal Miners' Strike, Colorado, 1913-1914 |
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Author | : Price V. Fishback |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1992-05-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195361938 |
While most studies of labor in the coal industry focus on the struggle to organize unions, this work offers a more diverse and quantitative examination of the labor market. It regards the economic lives of the bituminous coal miners in the early twentieth century. Fishback's analytic framework encompasses competition among employers for labor, the legal environment, institutional development in response to transactions costs as well as the impact of labor unions on the coal industry. Utilizing economic theory and statistics, Fishback reveals the models hidden in the descriptions of events, and then tests their internal consistency as well as the hypotheses they generate.