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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: United Mine Workers of America. University Park : Pennsylvania State University Pressin association with the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1996 (OCoLC)646956720 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John H M Laslett; United Mine Workers of America. Centennial Conference |
| ISBN: | 0271015373 9780271015378 |
| OCLC Number: | 33103984 |
| Notes: | Eight of the twenty-two chapters consist of revised papers that were delivered originally at the Centennial Conference of the United Mine Workers of America, held at the Pennsylvania State University in October 1990. |
| Description: | xvi, 576 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : "A model of industrial solidarity?" : interpretaing the UMWA's first hundred years, 1890-1990 / John H.M. Laslett -- Founders and leaders of the United Mine Workers in its heyday, 1890-1960. British immigrant colliers, and the origin and early development of the UMWA, 1870-1912 / John H.M. Laslett -- Workplace militancy and unionization : the UMWA and the anthracite miners, 1890-1912 / Perry K. Blatz -- John Mitchell and the politics of the trade agreement, 1898-1917 / Craig Phelan -- "Something of a man" : John L. Lewis, the UMWA, and the CIO, 1919-1943 / Alan J. Singer --John L. Lewis and the labor movement, 1940-1960 / Robert H. Zieger -- Work habits, miners' health, and coal company paternalism. Mechanization, workplace control, and the end of the hand-loading era / Keith Dix -- The miner's work environment : safety and company towns in the early 1900s / Price v. Fishback -- The role of the United Mine Workers in the prevention of work-related respiratory disease, 1890-1968 / Alan Derickson -- The rise and decline of the UMWA Health and Retirement Funds program, 1946-1995 / George S. Goldstein -- Strikes, minorities, and the role of female activists. Black miners in West Virginia : class and community responses to workplace discrimination, 1920-1930 / Joe W. Trotter, Jr. -- Coal miners and the social equality wedge in Alabama, 1880-1908 / Ronald L. Lewis -- The UMWA and new immigrant miners in Pennsylvania bituminous : the case of Windber / Michael A. Beik -- The 1913-1914 Colorado Fuel and Iron strike, with reflections on the causes of coal-strike violence / Priscilla Long -- Ladies in white : female activism in southern Illinois coalfields, 1932-1938 / Stephane E. Booth --International comparisons. Monopoly, competition, and collective bargaining : Pennsylvania and South Wales compared / Isaac Cohen -- "A parting of the ways" : immigrant miners and the rise of politically conscious trade unionism in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1865-1924 / John H.M. Laslett -- Industrial democracy and industrial legality : the UMWA in Nova Scotia, 1908-1927 / David Frank -- Developments since 1960, and the struggle for renewal. Legacy of democratic reform : the Trunka administration and the challenge of the eighties / Paul F. Clark -- Women go underground / Marat Moore -- "Tying the knot of solidarity" : the Pittston strike of 1989-1990 / James R. Green -- Afterword : Prospects for the UMWA / Maier B. Fox. |
| Responsibility: | edited by John H.M. Laslett. |
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- United Mine Workers of America -- History.
- Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- United States -- History.
- Coal miners -- United States -- History.
- Labor movement -- United States -- History.
- Industrial relations -- United States -- History.
- Coal mines and mining -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
- Labor laws and legislation -- United States -- History.
- United Mine Workers of America -- Histoire.
- Grèves et lock-out -- Charbon, Mines de -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Mineurs de charbon -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Mouvement ouvrier -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Relations industrielles -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Charbon -- Mines et extraction -- Droit -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Travail -- Droit -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
