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Union Renegades - Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age (Hardcover)
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Union Renegades - Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age (Hardcover)
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In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to
decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these
workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer
shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit
them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal
markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to
check corporate control, workers were often caught between these
institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best
advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union
dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and
broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic
form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of
rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or
reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and
independence in an otherwise unstable age. Nuanced and eye-opening,
Union Renegades challenges popular notions of workers attitudes
during the Gilded Age.
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