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…
Savage and Ayers offer a narrative history of the strike that weaves together threads about organizer Mother Jones, The United Mine Workers union, politicians, coal companies, and Baldwin-Felts detective agency guards with the experiences of everyday men and women.
In this important contribution to the study of industrial relations, Roy Church and Quentin Outram present research into the strike activity of British coalminers from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1960s. The authors consider not only the major national strikes and lock…
"Depression-era Harlan County, Kentucky, was the site of one of the most bitter and protracted labor disputes in American history. The decade-long conflict between miners and the coal operators who adamantly resisted unionization has been immortalized in folksong by Florence Ree…
