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Suny Series in Labor Studies: Class-Conscious Coal Miners : The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania by Alan J. Singer (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSTATE University of New York Press
ISBN-101438497725
ISBN-139781438497723
eBay Product ID (ePID)16070473141
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameClass-Conscious Coal Miners : the Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania
SubjectUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Economics / General
Publication Year2024
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlan J. Singer
Subject AreaSocial Science, Business & Economics, History
SeriesSuny Series in Labor Studies
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-043084
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"A fine-grained social history of the rebellious miners in Central Pennsylvania in the 1920s, Alan Singer's Class-Conscious Coal Miners brings us significant insights about radicalism and repression. Singer shows why miners have more in common with today's precarious workers, why mining communities in the coal fields were incubators for alternative views on political economy, and why they rebelled not only against coal operators but against their own union. In Singer's telling the 1920s become an incubator for the rebellious 1930s." -- Rosemary Feurer, author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest 1900-1950 "Alan J. Singer has written a highly readable and original book that makes a major contribution to the history of its field and US history in general. Although a number of scholarly works exist about labor-related events that took place in central Pennsylvania during the 1920s, none do what he has done or ask the questions he has. His goal was not simply to relate detailed information but to clarify how and why existing conditions created a working-class-conscious movement that potentially challenged business unionism, the structure of the nation's coal industry, and the direction of the country."--Mildred Allen Beik, author of The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.56209748
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Glossary for General Readers Introduction Part I: Bituminous Coal Industry 1. Ideological and Structural Conflict in the United Mine Workers of America 2. Chaotic Production and the Inadequacies of the Business-Unionist Program 3. Ethnic Division in the Coalfields 4. Coal-Patch Community Part II: Rank-and-File Miners 5. Rank-and-File Miners Challenge Business Unionism 6. John Brophy and the "Miners' Program" 7. Combating the Open-Shop Drive Part III: Nanty Glo 8. Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania 9. Nanty Glo versus the Open Shop Part IV: Save the Union 10. 1926 UMWA Presidential Campaign 11. Save the Union Committee Part V: Revival and Collapse 12. New Deal and World War II 13. Aftermath: Communities in Distress Bibliography Index
SynopsisMultifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era. Bituminous coal miners in Central Pennsylvania were among the most militant and class-conscious workers in the United States in the post-World War I era. Class-Conscious Coal Miners examines the development of working-class consciousness as they fought to sustain their union, jobs, communities, and work pejoratives, what they described as the Miner's Freedom, against mechanization and operator open shop drives in the 1920s. Their struggles brought them into conflict with coal companies, a pro-business federal government, and the business-unionist leadership of the United Mine Workers of America. After the collapse of the bituminous coal industry in Central Pennsylvania starting in the 1950s, working-class consciousness gradually diminished until, in the present century, there has been a marked shift toward political conservatism.
LC Classification NumberHD8083.P43S56 2024
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