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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields - The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields - The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: West Virginia & Appalachia Series
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Loot Price R543
Discovery Miles 5 430
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Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia
witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two
competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor
history-a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000
state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events
resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550
coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of
martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were
collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and
conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way
toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal
mining culture. This edition contains a new preface and afterword
by author David A. Corbin.
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