Black Coal Miners in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Coal Miners in America write by Ronald L. Lewis. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Black Coal Miners in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the miners. Using this approach, Lewis finds five distractive systems of race relations. There was in the South before and after the Civil War a system of slavery and convict labor -- an enforced servitude without legal compensation. This was succeeded by an exploitative system whereby the southern coal operators, using race as an excuse, paid lower wages to blacks and thus succeeded in depressing the entire wage scale. By contrast, in northern and midwestern mines, the pattern was to exclude blacks from the industry so that whites could control their jobs and their communities. In the central Appalachians, although blacks enjoyed greater social equality, the mine operators manipulated racial tensions to keep the work force divided and therefore weak. Finally, with the advent of mechanization, black laborers were displaced from the mines to such an extent that their presence in the coal fields in now nearly a thing of the past. By analyzing the ways race, class, and community shaped social relations in the coal fields, Black Coal Miners in America makes a major contribution to the understanding of regional, labor, social, and African-American history.
A History of the Coal Miners of the United States
A History of the Coal Miners of the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Coal Miners of the United States write by Andrew Roy. This book was released on 1907. A History of the Coal Miners of the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A History of the Coal Miners of the United States
A History of the Coal Miners of the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Coal Miners of the United States write by Andrew Roy. This book was released on 1985. A History of the Coal Miners of the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A History of the Coal Miners of the United States, From the Development of the Mines to the Close of the Anthracite Strike of 1902, Including a Brief Sketch of Early British Miners
A History of the Coal Miners of the United States, From the Development of the Mines to the Close of the Anthracite Strike of 1902, Including a Brief Sketch of Early British Miners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Coal Miners of the United States, From the Development of the Mines to the Close of the Anthracite Strike of 1902, Including a Brief Sketch of Early British Miners write by Andrew Roy. This book was released on 2023-07-18. A History of the Coal Miners of the United States, From the Development of the Mines to the Close of the Anthracite Strike of 1902, Including a Brief Sketch of Early British Miners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the development and history of the coal mining industry in America, including the contributions and struggles of early British miners and the working conditions and strikes faced by American miners. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Devil Is Here in These Hills
The Devil Is Here in These Hills - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil Is Here in These Hills write by James Green. This book was released on 2015-02-03. The Devil Is Here in These Hills available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
