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The miners of Windber : the struggles of new immigrants for unionization, 1890s-1930s /
Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
1996.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Structure and Society -- 1. From Berwind to Windber -- The Setting -- The Relative Significance of Windber-Area Production -- History of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company -- Defining ""Windber -- Buying Up Lands -- Railroad, Coal, and Timber Interests -- Mine Development and Construction -- Town Structure and Borough Status -- 2. From Europe to Windber -- Initial Operations -- The Size and Foreign Character of the Population | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Breakdown of the Foreign-Born Population -- Provincial Origins and Their Significance -- Regional Social and Economic Conditions -- A Profile of the Immigrant Populations -- 3. The Work of Mining -- Ethnic and Racial Hierarchies in Town Occupations -- Labor Recruitment and Ethnic Policies -- The Work of Mining: Job Classifications -- Superintendents, Foremen, and Assistant Foreman -- Ethnic Cluster and Hierarchies -- Previous Expericence, Discipline, and Steady Work -- Hours and Working Conditions -- Accidents, Safety, and Worker Compensation -- Training and Child Labor | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Machinery and Reorganization of Work -- 4. Women's Work -- Scarcity of Women and Female Employment Opportunities -- The Importance of the Boarding System -- The Significance of Female Labor -- 5. Ethnic Communities and Class -- The Importance of the National Parish -- The Importance of Fraternal Societies -- The Limits of New Immigrant Ethnic Conflicts -- Berwind-White's Role -- The Problem of Ethnic Leadership -- Part Two: Struggles and Strikes -- 6. First Stirrings -- The United Mine Workers of America -- Berwind-White and Collective Bargaining -- The Rebuilding of District 2 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Formation and Demise of an Ephemeral Local -- The Failure of Organizing ""From Above -- The Anomaly of Windber's Position in the District -- 7. Friends and Enemies -- The Nativist Context -- The Limits of Nativism -- The YMCA Experiment -- An Unexpected Alliance -- The Weakness of Independent Business -- The Tyranny of the Company Store -- 8. The Strike of 1906 -- Background -- The Strike in Windber Early Phase, April 2 to April 15 -- The Windber Massacre of April 16, 1906 -- The Windber Strike: Final Phase -- Spies and Factionalism -- 9. Rising Expectations | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The War's Immediate Impact and Early War Years -- The Revival of Organized Labor -- The Government, Berwind-White, and District 2 -- Getting Windber ""Free for Democracy -- The Citizens' Association and Miner Initiatives -- Postwar Militancy and the Red Scare -- 10. The Strike of 1922 -- Conjuncture of April 1922 -- On Strike with the National -- Carrying On Alone -- 11. The Long Depression and the New Deal -- Nativism Again -- The Aftermath of 1922 -- The Strike of 1927 -- The Limits of Politics and Protest -- The New Deal -- 12. The Achievements and Limits of Worker Protest -- Epilogue | |
| 520 | |a Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. . | ||
| 520 | |a 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. . | ||
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