Alan J. Singer

Class-Conscious Coal Miners (eBook, ePUB)

The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438497730
• Artikelnr.: 69296471

Autorenporträt

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.