| Description |
x, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-370) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : civil war, red and bloody -- A dream of coal-fired benevolence -- The reek of the new industrialism -- Riding the wave to survive an earth transformed -- Dying with their boots on -- Out of the depths and on to the march -- The quest for containment -- Shouting the battle cry of union. |
| Summary |
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family and a state militia beholden to Colorado?s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners? families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, and laid waste to two company towns. Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the ?Great Coalfield War.? Thomas Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers? strikes over the course of nearly half a century. He reveals a complex world shaped by the connected forces of land, labor, corporate industrialization, and workers? resistance. |
| Subject |
Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914.
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Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- Colorado -- History.
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| ISBN |
0674031016 alkaline paper |
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9780674031012 alkaline paper |
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