Killing for coal
Killing for coal: America's deadliest labor war Thomas G. Andrews,
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
ISBN: 0674031016
DDC: 331.892822334098
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
"Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the
Ludlow Massacre and the Great Coalfield War. In a sweeping story that
begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in
American history, Thomas Andrews examines the causes and consequences
of the militancy that erupted in colliers' strikes over the course of
nearly half a century. He reveals a complex world shaped by the
connected forces of land, labor, corporate industrialization, and
workers' resistance." "Andrews illuminates the human and
environmental transformations that turned a wild Western frontier
into a gritty epicenter of union management conflict. Exploring
struggles over social and environmental justice in a nation growing
increasingly dependent on the fossilized energy that the miners
worked to unearth, he makes a powerful case for rethinking the
relationships that unite and divide workers, consumers, capitalists,
and the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-370) and index.
Introduction: civil war, red and bloody -- A dream of coal-fired
benevolence -- The reek of the new industrialism -- Riding the wave
to survive an earth transformed -- Dying with their boots on -- Out
of the depths and on to the march -- The quest for containment --
Shouting the battle cry of union.
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