Class-Conscious Coal Miners
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9771-6 (ISBN)
Bituminous coal miners in Central Pennsylvania were among the most militant and class-conscious workers in the United States in the post-World War I era. Class-Conscious Coal Miners examines the development of working-class consciousness as they fought to sustain their union, jobs, communities, and work pejoratives, what they described as the Miner's Freedom, against mechanization and operator open shop drives in the 1920s. Their struggles brought them into conflict with coal companies, a pro-business federal government, and the business-unionist leadership of the United Mine Workers of America. After the collapse of the bituminous coal industry in Central Pennsylvania starting in the 1950s, working-class consciousness gradually diminished until, in the present century, there has been a marked shift toward political conservatism.
Alan J. Singer is Professor of Education at Hofstra University. He is the author of New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth and New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory, both also published by SUNY Press.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Glossary for General Readers
Introduction
Part I: Bituminous Coal Industry
1. Ideological and Structural Conflict in the United Mine Workers of America
2. Chaotic Production and the Inadequacies of the Business-Unionist Program
3. Ethnic Division in the Coalfields
4. Coal-Patch Community
Part II: Rank-and-File Miners
5. Rank-and-File Miners Challenge Business Unionism
6. John Brophy and the "Miners' Program"
7. Combating the Open-Shop Drive
Part III: Nanty Glo
8. Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania
9. Nanty Glo versus the Open Shop
Part IV: Save the Union
10. 1926 UMWA Presidential Campaign
11. Save the Union Committee
Part V: Revival and Collapse
12. New Deal and World War II
13. Aftermath: Communities in Distress
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.04.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Labor Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 10 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-9771-7 / 1438497717 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-9771-6 / 9781438497716 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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