Remembering Lattimer : labor, migration, and race in Pennsylvania anthracite country /
Lattimer, Pennsylvania, is the location for one of labor's forgotten massacres, a result of the xenophobic fears prevalent during the turn of the 20th century. On September 10, 1897, about 400 strikers of eastern & southern European descent marched to close the Lattimer colliery. Without wa...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Anthracite mining
- The Lattimer Strike/incident/massacre
- A great miscarriage of justice and the growth of the UMWA
- Memory of Lattimer
- The 1997 centennial commemoration and the memory of Lattimer
- Deindustrialization and the new twenty-first-century immigrant
- Turning the corner.