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Author : David Corbin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Betrayal in the West Virginia Coal Fields written by David Corbin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard Burton Lee
Publisher : West Virginia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bloodletting in Appalachia written by Howard Burton Lee and published by West Virginia University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winthrop David Lane
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Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Civil War in West Virginia written by Winthrop David Lane and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Watkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1547612193
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)
Download or read book The Mine Wars written by Steve Watkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deb Heiligman, a riveting true story of the West Virginia coal miners who ignited the largest labor uprising in American history. In May of 1920, in a small town in the mountains of West Virginia, a dozen coal miners took a stand. They were sick of the low pay in the mines. The unsafe conditions. The brutal treatment they endured from mine owners and operators. The scrip they were paid-instead of cash-that could only be used at the company store. They had tried to unionize, but the mine owners dug in. On that fateful day in May 1920, tensions boiled over and a gunfight erupted-beginning a yearlong standoff between workers and owners. The miners pleaded, then protested, then went on strike; the owners retaliated with spying, bribery, and threats. Violence escalated on both sides, culminating in the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in United States history. In this gripping narrative nonfiction book, meet the resolute and spirited people who fought for the rights of coal miners, and discover how the West Virginia Mine Wars paved the way for vital worker protections nationwide. More than a century later, this overlooked story of the labor movement remains urgently relevant.
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Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book West Virginia Coal Fields written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book West Virginia Coal Fields written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Constitutional Association (Charleston, W. Va.)
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Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Life in a West Virginia Coal Field written by American Constitutional Association (Charleston, W. Va.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Purviance Tams (Jr.)
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Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia written by William Purviance Tams (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia is much more than a brief history of one of West Virginia's most productive coal regions. Written by a pioneer operator who served in leadership positions in the Winding Gulf Coal Operators Association. The Smokeless Operators Association, the National Coal Association and the Southern Coal Operators Association, theis [this] little book constitutes a memoir of a man and a generation that shaped our history. Tams's description of the events, companies, and personalities that built the coal industry in the New River and Winding Gulf regions fills an important gap in our understanding of that volatile time."--Ronald D. Eller, from the Introduction (on back cover).
Author : Michael E. Workman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Northern West Virginia Coal Fields written by Michael E. Workman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia ... written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Murray
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Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)
Download or read book The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Workers written by Philip Murray and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Green
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192092
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Devil Is Here in These Hills written by James Green and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Anthony F. Libertella
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Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (538 download)
Download or read book The Conflicts in the West Virginia Coal Fields 1920-1921 written by Anthony F. Libertella and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Lawrence Wilson
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book West Virginia and the Coal Strike of 1919 written by Henry Lawrence Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lon Savage
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822971429
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Thunder In the Mountains written by Lon Savage and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1985-06-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners.The origins of this civil war were in the Draconian rule of the coal companies over the fiercely proud miners of Appalachia. It began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. During a street battle, Mayor Testerman, seven Baldwin-Felts agents, and two miners were shot to death.Hatfield became a folk hero to Appalachia. But he, like Testerman, was to be a martyr. The next summer, Baldwin-Felts agents assassinated him and his best friend, Ed Chambers, as their wives watched, on the steps of the courthouse in Welch, accelerating the miners' rebellion into open warfare.Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21.
Author : Captivating History
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ISBN 13 : 9781637169285
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (692 download)
Download or read book The West Virginia Coal Wars written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know the coal fields of West Virginia were the scene of violence and strife between coal miners and coal company management in the early 20th century? The West Virginia Coal Wars are often overlooked in US history. It is time that changed. Several lessons can be learned from what happened during the West Virginia Coal Wars. These confrontations led to developments in labor relations that define collective bargaining to this day. There were heroes and villains, saints and sinners, and a mountain culture that was inexorably changed. It is a story that is fascinating and disturbing at the same time. This book holds some fascinating tidbits of information many people do not know, including the following: The impact of company stores The role minorities played in the coal wars The story behind the term "redneck" Safety hazards the coal miners faced Organizations that supported the miners and better working conditions This book on the West Virginia Coal Wars lets us look down the mine shafts of West Virginia into the dark world of exploitation and worker abuse that was common one hundred years ago. The hills were alive with sounds of gunfire as coal miners and their union stood up against management. The West Virginia Coal Wars is a fascinating journey through the dark mountains of Appalachia and the struggle its people endured to win basic rights and respect.
Author : David Corbin
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields written by David Corbin and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal-mining culture"--Back cover.
