Democratic miners
work and labor relations in the anthracite coal industry, 1875-1925
by Perry K. Blatz
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Democratic Miners traces the history of work and labor relations in the anthracite coal industry, focusing on conditions that led up to, and followed, the famous strike of 1902. That strike, an epic five-and-a-half month struggle, led the federal government to intervene in a labor dispute for the first time in American history. Focusing on the workplace, Blatz puts the 1902 strike in the context of a turbulent half-century of labor-management relations.
Those years saw the unionization of the anthracite fields under the United Mine Workers of America, amidst an evolving democratic tradition of rank-and-file protest against corporate control, and ironically ended with a growing rift between miners and union leadership.
Unlike many books on labor relations, this work concentrates especially on the workers themselves. Working-class as opposed to union history, it contributes greatly to our understanding of working-class formation in the Progressive years.
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Anthracite coal industry, Coal miners, History, Labor unions, United Mine Workers of America, Labor unions, united states, Anthracite coal, Mineurs de charbon, Histoire, Anthracite, Industrie, Syndicats, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Labor, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Labor & Industrial Relations, Labor & Workers' EconomicsPlaces
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Democratic miners: work and labor relations in the anthracite coal industry, 1875-1925
1994, State University of New York Press
in English
0791418197 9780791418192
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-358) and index.
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