The Anthracite Coal Strike Of 1925
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Author | : Mitch Troutman |
Publisher | : PM Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2022-08-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1629639478 |
Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies and courts to form a union that would safeguard not just their livelihoods, but protect their collective autonomy as citizens and workers for decades. Community and Labor organizer Mitch Troutman brings this explosive and accessible American tale to life through the bootleggers’ own words. Scholars, historians, organizers and activists will celebrate this story of the people who literally seized mountains and stood their ground to create the Equalization movement, the miners’ union democracy movement, and the Communist-led Unemployed Councils of the anthracite region. This epic story of work, love and community stands as a testament to the power of collective action; a story that is sorely needed as communities today rise to confront neoliberal policies ravaging our planet.
Author | : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
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Total Pages | : 1924 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Author | : Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 1164 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy |
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Total Pages | : 1698 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) |
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Total Pages | : 1278 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Communism |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy |
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Total Pages | : 1644 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 1076 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Engineering |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division |
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Total Pages | : 1546 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Subject headings |
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Author | : Walter T. Howard |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761830900 |
This detailed investigation of Communists and their Party in the hard coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, known as the Anthracite, draws on sources such as the central archives of the Communist Party of the United States to examine the origins, growth, and decline of the relatively small but active Marxist-Leninist organization that operated there during the first half of the 20th century. Anthracite. Just mentioning the name of the hard coal region of Pennsylvania conjures up classic images of labor violence and class conflict: Molly Maguires, Lattimer and the 1902 national coal strike. Yet this legendary tradition of labor and class discord has prompted no historian to chronicle the complete story of the region's largest and most active radical group in the 20th century: American Communists. They are forgotten radicals. Chronicling the story of these forgotten radicals allows us to examine American Communism in an important area of the highly industrialized state of Pennsylvania where a major capitalist enterprise, the hard coal industry, employed a large contingent of immigrant workers for about half of the 20th century. To be sure, studying these radicals permits us to explore the overall historical pattern of American Communism_the founding of the Party in 1919, the challenges of the 1920s, the heyday of the thirties, the turns of World War II, and the decline during the McCarthy period_in a regional context. Thus, Forgotten Radicals fills a niche in local studies of rank and file Communist activity.
Author | : Thomas L. Dublin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501707299 |
The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of this area over the course of the twentieth century. Combining business, labor, social, political, and environmental history, Dublin and Licht delve into coal communities to explore grassroots ethnic life and labor activism, economic revitalization, and the varied impact of economic decline across generations of mining families. The Face of Decline also features the responses to economic crisis of organized capital and labor, local business elites, redevelopment agencies, and state and federal governments. Dublin and Licht draw on a remarkable range of sources: oral histories and survey questionnaires; documentary photographs; the records of coal companies, local governments, and industrial development corporations; federal censuses; and community newspapers. The authors examine the impact of enduring economic decline across a wide region but focus especially on a small group of mining communities in the region's Panther Valley, from Jim Thorpe through Lansford to Tamaqua. The authors also place the anthracite region within a broader conceptual framework, comparing anthracite's decline to parallel developments in European coal basins and Appalachia and to deindustrialization in the United States more generally.