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. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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