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Union Renegades : Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age /

"In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As c...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Caldemeyer, Dana M., 1986- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Deceived : producers in a dishonest world
  • Undermined : winter diggers, union strikebreakers
  • "Judases" : union "betrayal" and the aborted 1891 strike
  • Outsiders : race and the exclusive politics of an inclusive union, 1892-1894
  • Unsettled : nonunion mobilization and the 1894 strike
  • Wolves : fractured unions in the Gilded Age, 1894-1896.