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Author |
: Thomas G. Andrews |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2010-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674736689 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674736680 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Killing for Coal by : Thomas G. Andrews
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, and laid waste to two company towns. Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a sweeping story of transformation that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews illuminates 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. Brilliantly conceived and written, this book takes the organic world as its starting point. The resulting elucidation of the coalfield wars goes far beyond traditional labor history. Considering issues of social and environmental justice in the context of an economy dependent on fossil fuel, Andrews makes a powerful case for rethinking the relationships that unite and divide workers, consumers, capitalists, and the natural world.
Author |
: Thomas G. Andrews |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 399 |
Release |
: 2009-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674020214 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674020219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Killing for Coal by : Thomas G. Andrews
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, and laid waste to two company towns. Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a sweeping story of transformation that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews illuminates 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. Brilliantly conceived and written, this book takes the organic world as its starting point. The resulting elucidation of the coalfield wars goes far beyond traditional labor history. Considering issues of social and environmental justice in the context of an economy dependent on fossil fuel, Andrews makes a powerful case for rethinking the relationships that unite and divide workers, consumers, capitalists, and the natural world.
Author |
: Thomas G. Andrews |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2008-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674031016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674031012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Killing for Coal by : Thomas G. Andrews
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, and laid waste to two company towns. Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a sweeping story of transformation that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews illuminates 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. Brilliantly conceived and written, this book takes the organic world as its starting point. The resulting elucidation of the coalfield wars goes far beyond traditional labor history. Considering issues of social and environmental justice in the context of an economy dependent on fossil fuel, Andrews makes a powerful case for rethinking the relationships that unite and divide workers, consumers, capitalists, and the natural world.
Author |
: Mark A. Bradley |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 455 |
Release |
: 2020-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393652543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393652548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America by : Mark A. Bradley
A vivid account of “one of the most shocking episodes in organized labor’s blood-soaked history” (Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Behind the assassination was the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent, and served the interests of Big Coal companies—and would do anything to maintain power. The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders catalyzed the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history. Blood Runs Coal is an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation’s major unions on the brink of historical change.
Author |
: Scott Martelle |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813544199 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081354419X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blood Passion by : Scott Martelle
"On April 20, 1914, in the small railroad town of Ludlow, Colorado, striking coalminers and state National Guardsmen waged a day-long battle that ended with the burning of a strikers' tent colony. The "Ludlow Massacre," as it is known, was only part of a seven-month war in which at least seventy-five people were killed. In Blood Passion, journalist Scott Martelle explores this largely forgotten American saga of coalminers rising against political and economic corruption, a fight that embraced some of the most volatile social movements of the early twentieth century."--Cover.
Author |
: Peter A. Galuszka |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2012-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250000217 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250000211 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thunder on the Mountain by : Peter A. Galuszka
The searing true story of the rise, fall, and resurrection of Massey Energy, and the negligence that led to the death of 29 miners, exposing the coal-black motivations that fuel the ongoing war for the world's energy future.
Author |
: Zeese Papanikolas |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1991-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803287275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803287273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Buried Unsung by : Zeese Papanikolas
Louis Tikas was a union organizer killed in the battle between striking coal miners and stateømilitia in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914. In Buried Unsung he stands for a whole generation of immigrant workers who, in the years before World War I, found themselves caught between the realities of industrial America and their aspirations for a better life.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Mehring Books |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780929087511 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0929087518 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death on the Picket Line by :
Author |
: Jeff Goodell |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 2007-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547526621 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547526628 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Big Coal by : Jeff Goodell
New York Times–Bestselling Author:“Should be ready by anyone who owns a microwave, or an iPod, or a table lamp, which is to say everyone.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Coal is still a significant source of power in the United States—and coal mining is still a deadly and environmentally destructive industry. Much of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year comes from coal-fired power plants, and in recent decades air pollution from coal plants has killed more than half a million Americans. In this eye-opening call to action, Jeff Goodell explains the costs and consequences of America’s addiction to coal and discusses how we can kick the habit. “[A] compelling indictment . . . powerful.” —The New York Times Book Review “Goodell’s description of the mining-related deaths, the widespread health consequences of burning coal and the impact on our planet’s increasingly fragile ecosystem make for compelling reading, but . . . are not what lift this book out of the ordinary. That distinction belongs to Goodell’s fieldwork, which takes him to Atlanta, West Virginia, Wyoming, China and beyond.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Goodell does a first-rate job of balancing environmental concerns with interviews from the human faces associated with ‘Big Coal’.” —Library Journal
Author |
: Thomas G. Andrews |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674046919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674046917 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Killing for Coal by : Thomas G. Andrews
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, and laid waste to two company towns. Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a sweeping story of transformation that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews illuminates 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. Brilliantly conceived and written, this book takes the organic world as its starting point. The resulting elucidation of the coalfield wars goes far beyond traditional labor history. Considering issues of social and environmental justice in the context of an economy dependent on fossil fuel, Andrews makes a powerful case for rethinking the relationships that unite and divide workers, consumers, capitalists, and the natural world.