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Killing for coal : America's deadliest labor war, Thomas G. Andrews

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"Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the Ludlow Massacre and the Great Coalfield War. In a sweeping story that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews examines 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." "Andrews illuminates the human and environmental transformations that turned a wild Western frontier into a gritty epicenter of union management conflict. Exploring struggles over social and environmental justice in a nation growing increasingly dependent on the fossilized energy that the miners worked to unearth, he makes a powerful case for rethinking the relationships that unite and divide workers, consumers, capitalists, and the natural world."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
x, 386 p.
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
Isbn
9780674046917
Instance
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Killing for coal : America's deadliest labor war
Title
Killing for coal
Title remainder
America's deadliest labor war
Statement of responsibility
Thomas G. Andrews
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the Ludlow Massacre and the Great Coalfield War. In a sweeping story that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews examines 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." "Andrews illuminates the human and environmental transformations that turned a wild Western frontier into a gritty epicenter of union management conflict. Exploring struggles over social and environmental justice in a nation growing increasingly dependent on the fossilized energy that the miners worked to unearth, he makes a powerful case for rethinking the relationships that unite and divide workers, consumers, capitalists, and the natural world."--Jacket
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1972-
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Andrews, Thomas G.
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
HD5325.M63 1913
LC item number
C736 2008
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Coal Strike (Colorado : 1913-1914)
  • Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Arbeitskampf
  • Kohlenbergbau
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Colorado <Staat>
  • Colorado
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Killing for coal : America's deadliest labor war, Thomas G. Andrews
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
x, 386 p.
Isbn
9780674046917
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Lccn
2008020757
Other physical details
ill., maps
System control number
  • (OCoLC)225874235
  • (OCoLC)ocn225874235
Label
Killing for coal : America's deadliest labor war, Thomas G. Andrews
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
x, 386 p.
Isbn
9780674046917
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Lccn
2008020757
Other physical details
ill., maps
System control number
  • (OCoLC)225874235
  • (OCoLC)ocn225874235

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