All That Glitters - Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (Paperback, New)

At the turn of the century, Colorado's Cripple Creek District captured the national imagination with the extraordinary wealth of its gold mines and the unquestionable strength of the militant Western Federation of Miners. Elizabeth Jameson tells the entertaining story of Cripple Creek, the scene in 1894 of one of radical labor's most stunning victories and, in 1903 and 1904, of one of its most crushing defeats. Jameson draws on working-class oral histories, the Victor and Cripple Creek Daily Press published by 34 of the local labor unions, and the 1900 manuscript census. She connects unions with lodges and fraternal associations, ethnic identity, families, households, and partisan politics. Through these ties, she probes the differences in age, skill, gender, marital status, and ethnicity that strained working-class unity and contributed to the fall of labor in Cripple Creek. Jameson's book will be required reading for western, ethnic, and working-class historians seeking an alternative interpretation of western mining struggles that emphasizes class, gender, and multiple sources of social identity.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Working Class in American History
Release date:	March 1998
First published:	March 1998
Authors:	Elizabeth Jameson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-06690-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-252-06690-1
Barcode:	9780252066900

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