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Author : Eugene F. Calabrese
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for Democracy in the United Mine Workers written by Eugene F. Calabrese and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul F. Clark
Publisher : ILR Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Miners' Fight for Democracy written by Paul F. Clark and published by ILR Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA. Monograph recounting the progress, achievements and leadership of the coal miners' trade union federation in their movement for democratic reform and social participation of membership in decision making - covers trade union structure, collective bargaining reforms, internal conflicts, election campaigning, etc. From 1972 to 1977. Diagrams and references.
Author : Mark A. Bradley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652548
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America written by Mark A. Bradley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of “one of the most shocking episodes in organized labor’s blood-soaked history” (Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Behind the assassination was the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent, and served the interests of Big Coal companies—and would do anything to maintain power. The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders catalyzed the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history. Blood Runs Coal is an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation’s major unions on the brink of historical change.
Download or read book Labor: Miners for Democracy written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These interviews concentrate on the Miners for Democracy movement within the United Mine Workers Union in West Virginia, 1970-1972. George W. Hopkins interviewed movement leaders for his dissertation, "The Miners for Democracy: Insurgency in the United Mine Workers of America, 1970-1972" (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1976). Interviews with Joseph "Chip" Yablonski, Jr., Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich, and other United Mine Workers leaders focus on the miners' movement, its internal problems, and the issues at the mines that spurred the creation of the movement.
Author : Brit Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Death and the Mines written by Brit Hume and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of working conditions and labour relations in the coal mining industry in the USA, with particular reference to the activities of the united mine workers trade union - outlines the growth of the umw, strike and unofficial strike activities, collective bargaining issues, occupational accidents and occupational disease resulting from a lack of occupational safety standards, political aspects, etc., and comments on relevant labour legislation. Illustrations.
Author : Richard J. Jensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Rebellion in the United Mine Workers written by Richard J. Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 366 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 : Mildred Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074566
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
Author : Alessandro Portelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199934851
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book They Say in Harlan County written by Alessandro Portelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.
Author : United Mine Workers of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The United Mine Workers Journal written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United Mine Workers of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book United Mine Workers Journal written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607817314
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Carbon County, USA written by Christian Wright and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although unions are by no means entirely gone or lacking in lobbying power, their membership in traditional industries is on the decline and their influence continues to diminish. Only a generation ago, large unions such as the United Mine Workers of America held greater political and economic capital and inspired millions beyond their immediate ranks. In this book, Christian Wright explores the complex history of the UMWA and coal mining in the West over a fifty-year period of the twentieth century, concentrating on the coal miners of Carbon and Emery counties in Utah. Wright emphasizes their experience during the 1970s, which saw the rise and passing of American workers' most successful postwar effort to internally reform a major labor organization: the Miners for Democracy movement. As Wright details how and why Miners for Democracy and nonunion mining raced to control coal's future, he also touches on the UMWA's regional origins during and immediately after the New Deal, when cracks in union efficacy and benefit programs began to appear. Using sophisticated demography, Wright not only details how miners' racial, gender, and generational identities shaped their changing relationships to mining and organized labor, he also illustrates the place of nonunion miners, antiunion employers, the unemployed, ethnic minorities, and women in transforming "Carbon County, USA." Drawing on a variety of primary sources, Wright provides evidence for organized labor's continuing significance and value while effectively illuminating its mounting frustrations during a relatively recent chapter in the history of Utah and the United States.
Author : Barbara Ellen Smith
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642593931
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Digging Our Own Graves written by Barbara Ellen Smith and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : United Mine Workers of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book United Mine Workers Journal written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lani GUINIER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038037
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Miner's Canary written by Lani GUINIER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community. The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.
Author : Angela Vergara
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047836
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Copper Workers, International Business, and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile written by Angela Vergara and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Goldfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190079320
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Southern Key written by Michael Goldfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The South is today, as it always has been, the key to understanding American society, its politics, its constitutional anomalies and government structure, its culture, its social relations, its music and literature, its media focus, its blind spots, and virtually everything else. The Golden Key argues that much of what is important in American politics and society today was largely shaped by the successes and failures of the labor movements of the 1930s and 1940s, and most notably the failures of southern labor organizing during this period. It also argues that these failures, despite some important successes in organizing interracial unions, left the South (and consequentially much of the rest of the United States as well) racially backward and open to right-wing demagoguery. These failures have led to a nationwide decline in unionization, growing economic inequality, and overall failures to confront white supremacy head on. In an in-depth look at unexamined archival material and detailed data, The Golden key challenges established historiography, both telling a tale of race, radicalism, and betrayal and arguing that the outcome was not at all predetermined"--
