During the Industrial Revolution, class relations were defined largely through the struggle to control the terms of exchange in the market. Integrating aspects of economic and social history as well as industrial sociology, this book examines the sources of the perception of the…
Traces the history of the United Mine Workers, the first major industry-wide union, emphasizing its struggles to organize, win improved conditions for its members, and rid itself of internal corruption
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…
"The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and lawless exploitation…
The Coal Nation explores the complex history of coal in India; from its colonial legacies to contemporary cultural and social impacts of mining; land ownership and moral resource rights; protective legislation for coal as well as for the indigenous and local communities; the que…
Buxton: a Black utopia in the heartland
by Schwieder, Dorothy, Hraba, Joseph, Schwieder, Elmer
fromA Bur oak book
Buxton: a Black utopia in the heartland
by Schwieder, Dorothy, Hraba, Joseph, Schwieder, Elmer
fromBur oak book
"From 1900 to the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland: Buxton, Iowa, established by the Consolidation Coal Company. The majority of Buxton's five thousand residents were African Americans - a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was ov…
