Class-Conscious Coal Miners : The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania (Suny series in Labor Studies)

Singer, Alan J.

State University of New York Press（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438497716
• DDC分類 305.56209748

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Glossary for General Readers

Introduction

Part I: Bituminous Coal Industry

1. Ideological and Structural Conflict in the United Mine Workers of America

2. Chaotic Production and the Inadequacies of the Business-Unionist Program

3. Ethnic Division in the Coalfields

4. Coal-Patch Community

Part II: Rank-and-File Miners

5. Rank-and-File Miners Challenge Business Unionism

6. John Brophy and the "Miners' Program"

7. Combating the Open-Shop Drive

Part III: Nanty Glo

8. Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania

9. Nanty Glo versus the Open Shop

Part IV: Save the Union

10. 1926 UMWA Presidential Campaign

11. Save the Union Committee

Part V: Revival and Collapse

12. New Deal and World War II

13. Aftermath: Communities in Distress

Bibliography
Index