Harlan Miners Speak : Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields /

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The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners
Other Authors: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Labor unions.
Coal mines and mining.
Coal miners > Labor unions.
Coal miners.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Syndicats > Kentucky.
Mineurs de charbon > Kentucky > Harlan (Comte)
Mineurs de charbon > Syndicats > Kentucky.
Mineurs de charbon > Syndicats > Kentucky > Harlan (Comte)
Labor unions > Kentucky.
Coal mines and mining > Kentucky.
Coal miners > Kentucky > Harlan County.
Coal Miners' Strike, Harlan County, Ky., 1932.
Coal miners > Labor unions > Kentucky.
Coal miners > Labor unions > Kentucky > Harlan County.
Kentucky > Harlan County.
Kentucky.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for greater union membership, class resentment turned to warfare. Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, is an invaluable record that illustrates the living and working conditions of the miners during the 1930s. This edition of Harlan Miners Speak, with a new introduction by noted historian.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9780813159843

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