Life Work And Rebellion In The Coal Fields

Author : David Corbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0252008952

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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields by David Corbin Pdf

"Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal-mining culture"--Back cover.

Author : David Corbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1940425794

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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields by David Corbin Pdf

Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal mining culture. This second edition contains a new preface and afterword by author David A. Corbin.

Author : Joe William Trotter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253206693

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The Great Migration in Historical Perspective by Joe William Trotter Pdf

"The essays collected in this book represent the best of our present understanding of the African-American migration which began in the early twentieth century." —Southern Historian "As an overview of a field in transition, this is a valuable and deeply thought-provoking anthology." —Pennsylvania History " . . . provocative and informative . . . " —Louisiana History "The papers themselves are uniformly strong, and read together cast interesting light upon one another." —Georgia Historical Quarterly " . . . well-written and insightful essays . . . " —Journal of American History "This well-researched and well-documented collection represents the latest scholarship on the black migration." —Illinois Historical Journal " . . . an impressive balance of theory and historical content . . . " —Indiana Magazine of History Legions of black Americans left the South to migrate to the jobs of the North, from the meat-packing plants of Chicago to the shipyards of Richmond, California. These essays analyze the role of African Americans in shaping their own geographical movement, emphasizing the role of black kin, friend, and communal network. Contributors include Darlene Clark Hine, Peter Gottlieb, James R. Grossman, Earl Lewis, Shirley Ann Moore, and Joe William Trotter, Jr.

Author : David Corbin
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015002134115

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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields by David Corbin Pdf

"Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal-mining culture"--Back cover.

Author : Joe William Trotter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0252061195

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Coal, Class, and Color by Joe William Trotter Pdf

Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813181516

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Black Coal Miners in America by Ronald L. Lewis Pdf

From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the miners. Using this approach, Lewis finds five distractive systems of race relations. There was in the South before and after the Civil War a system of slavery and convict labor—an enforced servitude without legal compensation. This was succeeded by an exploitative system whereby the southern coal operators, using race as an excuse, paid lower wages to blacks and thus succeeded in depressing the entire wage scale. By contrast, in northern and midwestern mines, the pattern was to exclude blacks from the industry so that whites could control their jobs and their communities. In the central Appalachians, although blacks enjoyed greater social equality, the mine operators manipulated racial tensions to keep the work force divided and therefore weak. Finally, with the advent of mechanization, black laborers were displaced from the mines to such an extent that their presence in the coal fields in now nearly a thing of the past. By analyzing the ways race, class, and community shaped social relations in the coal fields, Black Coal Miners in America makes a major contribution to the understanding of regional, labor, social, and African-American history.

Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439105108

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Domestic Revolutions by Steven Mintz Pdf

An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model. Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of the last three centuries, beginning with the modified European model of the earliest settlers. From there they survey the changes in the families of whites (working class, immigrants, and middle class) and blacks (slave and free) since the Colonial years, and identify four deep changes in family structure and ideology: the democratic family, the companionate family, the family of the 1950s, and lastly, the family of the '80s, vulnerable to societal changes but still holding together.

Author : Richard J. Callahan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253000705

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Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields by Richard J. Callahan Pdf

Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. Callahan follows coal miners and their families from subsistence farming to industrial coal mining as they draw upon religious idioms to negotiate changing patterns of life and work. He traces innovation and continuity in religious expression that emerged from the specific experiences of coal mining, including the spaces and social structures of coal towns, the working bodies of miners, the anxieties of their families, and the struggle toward organized labor. Building on oral histories, folklore, folksongs, and vernacular forms of spirituality, this rich and engaging narrative recovers a social history of ordinary working people through religion.

Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466894006

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Mother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn Pdf

Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful. In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America," Elliott J. Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever."

Author : Brian Kelly
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252069331

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Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 by Brian Kelly Pdf

In this lucid and supremely readable study, Brian Kelly challenges the prevailing notion that white workers were the main source of resistance to racial equality in the Jim Crow South. Kelly explores the forces that brought the black and white miners of Birmingham, Alabama, together during the hard-fought strikes of 1908 and 1920. He examines the systematic efforts by the region's powerful industrialists to foment racial divisions as a means of splitting the workforce, preventing unionization, and holding wages to the lowest levels in the country. He also details the role played by Birmingham's small but influential black middle class, whose espousal of industrial accommodation outraged black miners and revealed significant tensions within the African-American community.

Author : Alessandro Portelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199934850

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They Say in Harlan County by Alessandro Portelli Pdf

This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.

Author : Paul Salstrom
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813188393

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Appalachia's Path to Dependency by Paul Salstrom Pdf

In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time in southern Appalachia. Moving away from the colonial model to an analysis based on dependency, he exposes the complex web of factors—regulation of credit, industrialization, population growth, cultural values, federal intervention—that has worked against the region. Salstrom argues that economic adversity has resulted from three types of disadvantages: natural, market, and political. The overall context in which Appalachia's economic life unfolded was one of expanding United States markets and, after the Civil War, of expanding capitalist relations. Covering Appalachia's economic history from early white settlement to the end of the New Deal, this work is not simply an economic interpretation but draws as well on other areas of history. Whereas other interpretations of Appalachia's economy have tended to seek social or psychological explanations for its dependency, this important work compels us to look directly at the region's economic history. This regional perspective offers a clear-eyed view of Appalachia's path in the future.

Author : Donna R. Gabaccia,Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802084621

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Women, Gender and Transnational Lives by Donna R. Gabaccia,Franca Iacovetta Pdf

In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia challenge the stereotype of the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows.'

Author : David Alan Corbin
Publisher : Pm Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1604864524

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Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals by David Alan Corbin Pdf

A sobering account on the human cost of a landmark industrial conflict retraces the West Virginia coal mining rebellions of the early 20th century as culled from articles, speeches, union transcripts and Senate committee testimonies by miners and their families. Original.

Author : Deborah R. Weiner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252054945

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Coalfield Jews by Deborah R. Weiner Pdf

The stories of vibrant eastern European Jewish communities in the Appalachian coalfields Coalfield Jews explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia’s transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. Traveling to southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southwestern Virginia to investigate the coal boom’s opportunities, some Jewish immigrants found success as retailers and established numerous small but flourishing Jewish communities. Deborah R. Weiner’s Coalfield Jews provides the first extended study of Jews in Appalachia, exploring where they settled, how they made their place within a surprisingly receptive dominant culture, how they competed with coal company stores, interacted with their non-Jewish neighbors, and maintained a strong Jewish identity deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains. To tell this story, Weiner draws on a wide range of primary sources in social, cultural, religious, labor, economic, and regional history. She also includes moving personal statements, from oral histories as well as archival sources, to create a holistic portrayal of Jewish life that will challenge commonly held views of Appalachia as well as the American Jewish experience.