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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Shogan, Robert. Battle of Blair Mountain : The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising. New York : Basic Books, ©2006 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Shogan |
ISBN: | 9780786735945 0786735945 |
OCLC Number: | 721194338 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Author's Note; Acknowledgments; 1 Matewan Station; 2 "What Does Labor Want?"; 3 Seeing Red; 4 "A Powder Keg Ready to Blow"; 5 "It's Good to Have Friends"; 6 "War, Insurrection and Riot"; 7 Mr. Hatfield Goes to Washington; 8 "Even the Heavens Weep"; 9 "I Come Creeping"; 10 Requiem for a Rebellion; Reference Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
Responsibility: | Robert Shogan. |
Abstract:
Depicts the relatively unrecognized but highly dramatic confrontation culminating at Blair Mountain in West Virginia, between unionized mineworkers, mine owners, and the federal government in the largest armed uprising since the Civil War.
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- Blair Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1921.
- Labor disputes -- West Virginia -- History -- 20th century.
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- History -- 20th century.
- Insurgency -- West Virginia -- History -- 20th century.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Insurgency.
- Labor disputes.
- West Virginia.