Download or read book Birth of a Union A History of Coal Mining in Illinois and the Progressive Miners of America written by David Markwell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Mining and Union Activities written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrators describe working conditions in Illinois coal mines in the early 20th century, the "mine wars" of the 1930's, hostilities between the United Mine Workers and the Progressive Miners of America, living conditions of striking miners and their families, impressions of John L. Lewis, and other issues related to coal mining in the state. This project was funded in part by the Illinois Bicentennial Commission.
Download or read book The Progressive Mine Workers of America written by Harriet Dufresne Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal and Unionism written by David John McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unity written by Gilbert Gibbons and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gillespie, Illinois 1932. Coal miners struggle not only to put a meal on the table but keep their very lives. Harsh and terrible conditions take the lives of friends and family. After several accidents, a group of miners decide to make a change and fight the establishment. Unity is a story of one family's struggle to do right by their own, town and mine. As a small band of miners fight to join The Progressive Miners of America Union to save their town and future.Inspired by true conditions
Download or read book A History of the Coal Miners of the United States written by Andrew Roy and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor Loyalty and Rebellion written by Carl R. Weinberg and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 5, 1918, as American troops fought German forces on the Western Front, German American coal miner Robert Prager was hanged from a tree outside Collinsville, Illinois, having been accused of disloyal utterances about the United States and chased out of town by a mob. In Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I, Carl R. Weinberg offers a new perspective on the Prager lynching and confronts the widely accepted belief among labor historians that workers benefited from demonstrating loyalty to the nation. The first published study of wartime strikes in southwestern Illinois is a powerful look at a group of people whose labor was essential to the war economy but whose instincts for class solidarity spawned a rebellion against mine owners both during and after the war. At the same time, their patriotism wreaked violent working-class disunity that crested in the brutal murder of an immigrant worker. Weinberg argues that the heightened patriotism of the Prager lynching masked deep class tensions within the mining communities of southwestern Illinois that exploded after the Great War ended.
Download or read book Union Mine Labor in Illinois and the Determination of Wage Scales and Working Conditions written by Illinois Coal Operators Association and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United Mine Workers of America and the Non union Coal Fields written by Albert Ford Hinrichs and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is the purpose of this book to examine the case for and against the extension of the United Mine Workers of America to non-union coal fields." -- Page 9.
Download or read book Joseph Ozanic Sr Memoir written by Ed McKinley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Ozanic, Sr., a coal miner, discusses various aspects of coal mining during the early and mid 20th century and especially mining unions: the conflict between the Progressive Miners of America and United Mine Workers of America, the mine wars and martyrs, John L. Lewis, Mother Jones, Frank Farrington, the American Federation of Labor, Virden riot, marches on Mulkeytown and Coulterville, mine work, mine conditions and disasters, improvements in the mines, federal government involvement, the Guffy-Vinson Coal Act and his work for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Download or read book The Coal mine Workers written by Frank Julian Warne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Which Side are You On written by John W. Hevener and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Depression-era Harlan County, Kentucky, was the site of one of the most bitter and protracted labor disputes in American history. The decade-long conflict between miners and the coal operators who adamantly resisted unionization has been immortalized in folksong by Florence Reece and Aunt Molly Jackson, contemplated in prose by Theodore Dreiser and Sherwood Anderson, and long been obscured by popular myths and legends. John W. Hevener separates the fact from the legend in his Weatherford Award-winning investigation of Harlan's civil strife, now available for the first time in paperback. "In Which Side Are You On?" Hevener attributes the violence - including the deaths of thirteen union miners--to more than just labor conflict, viewing Harlan's troubles as sectional economic conflict stemming from the county's rapid industrialization and social disorganization in the preceding decade. Detailing the dimensions of unionization and the balance of power spawned by New Deal labor policy after government intervention, "Which Side Are You On? " is the definitive analysis of Harlan's bloody decade and a seminal contribution to American labor history."
Download or read book Contract Between the Coal Producers Association of Illinois and Progressive Mine Workers of America District No 1 in Effect 12 01 A M April 1 1939 Expires March 31 1941 written by Coal Producers' Association of Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1939* with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Coal Industry 1790 1902 Volume III written by Sean Patrick Adams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of coal-based fuel economy over the course of the nineteenth century was one of the most significant contributions the America’s Industrial Revolution, but the transition from wood to mineral energy sources was a gradual one that transpired over a number of decades. The documents in these volumes recreate the institutional history of the American coal industry in the nineteenth century; in doing so they provide a first-hand perspective on the developments in regard to political economy, business structure and competition, the rise of formal trade unions, and the creation of a national coal trade. Although the collection strives to be wide-ranging in region and theme, the Pennsylvania anthracite coal trade forms the thematic backbone as it became the most important American mineral resource to see successful development throughout the nineteenth century and consequently saw unprecedented levels of intervention by the federal government. The texts for this collection were selected for their accessibility to modern readers as well as their relationship to a series of common themes across the nineteenth century American coal industry — with headnotes and annotations provided to explain their context and the reasons for their inclusion.The third volume in this set traces the three decades following the American Civil War, during which time the use of coal for manufacturing, locomotives and domestic heating helped build a dynamic industrial economy in the United States. Mineral fuel growth powered the growth of the nation and by 1885 coal became the single most important source of American energy. Coal mining spread to nearly every corner of the nation in the half-century following the civil war. By the time of the Great Anthracite Strike in 1902, the American coal industry was a truly national phenomenon. The rise of large and well-funded mining and railroad corporations, the national unions, and the inroads by state governments into mine safety
Download or read book History of United Mine Workers of America written by Chris Evans and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brief History of the United Mine Workers of America written by Justin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where the Sun Never Shines written by Priscilla Long and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
