Life, work, and rebellion in the coal fields : the southern West Virginia miners 1880-1922 /

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 mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Corbin, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Morgantown [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2015.
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:West Virginia and Appalachia.
Subjects:
Working class > West Virginia > History.
Coal miners > Labor unions > West Virginia > History.
Labor disputes > West Virginia > History.
Coal miners > West Virginia > History.
Travailleurs > Virginie-Occidentale > Histoire.
Mineurs de charbon > Syndicats > Virginie-Occidentale > Histoire.
Mineurs de charbon > Virginie-Occidentale > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Coal miners
Coal miners > Labor unions
Labor disputes
Working class
West Virginia
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • "Coal is our existence"
  • "What kind of animals"
  • Class over caste : interracial solidarity in the company town
  • "Solidarity forever"
  • Conspiracies and control
  • "We shall not be moved"
  • A war for democracy
  • "I'm gonna fight for my union"
  • "Land of the free, home of the brave"
  • Afterword : "so it is with West Virginia."

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