Into the fight -- As hatred mounted -- Evolution and revolution -- "Take your hats off to 'Mother' Jones!"--"Organize us!" -- "The guards have got to go!" -- A "peace proclamation" -- Walking the creek -- A state of war -- Mountainsides to meeting rooms -- "That scab labor" -- A…
"Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help. Mining was central to working class life, drawing rural populations into industrial labour, but i…
Prospectors, politicians, and the question of "progress": the first and second gold booms in Wassa -- Labor recruitment in the nineteenth century: the place of practicality -- Disrupted recruitment at the turn of the twentieth century: women, whites, and other labor agents -- Go…
"The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concern to historians -- most prominently, the development of the state, the emergence of capitalism, and the role of the working classes i…
