Class-Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania - Couverture souple

Singer, Alan J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438497725 ISBN 13 : 9781438497723

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2024

Synopsis

Multifaceted 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan J. Singer is Professor of Education at Hofstra University. He is the author of New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth and New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory, both also published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438497725
• ISBN 13: 9781438497723
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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