Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in
the Appalachian coalfields.This collection brings together nearly
three decades of research on the African American experience,
class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. It
shows how, with deep roots in the antebellum era of chattel
slavery, West Virginia's Black working class gradually picked up
steam during the emancipation years following the Civil War and
dramatically expanded during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. From there, African American Workers and the
Appalachian Coal Industry highlights the decline of the region's
Black industrial proletariat under the impact of rapid
technological, social, and political changes following World War
II. It underscores how all miners suffered unemployment and
outmigration from the region as global transformations took their
toll on the coal industry, but emphasizes the disproportionately
painful impact of declining bituminous coal production on African
American workers, their families, and their communities. Joe
Trotter not only reiterates the contributions of proletarianization
to our knowledge of US labor and working-class history but also
draws attention to the gender limits of studies of Black life that
focus on class formation, while calling for new transnational
perspectives on the subject. Equally important, this volume
illuminates the intellectual journey of a noted labor historian
with deep family roots in the southern Appalachian coalfields.
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