Carbon County, USA : miners for democracy in Utah and the West / Christian L. Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Christian L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal miners--Labor unions--Utah--Carbon County--History.

Coal miners.

Coal miners--Labor unions--West (U.S.)--History.

United Mine Workers of America--History.

United Mine Workers of America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Whither the union movement? is a question of old enough relevance in the U.S. to now seem almost anachronistic. Although unions are by no means entirely gone or lacking in political power, they and their potency are certainly diminished. With growing concerns about the direction of national politics, increasing income and power inequities, and signs of a receding middle class and increasing social division into haves and have nots, one can hear murmurs of union revival, but polls continue to show that many Americans distrust unions or consider them irrelevant to a modern service economy. Christian Wright digests what happened to one important American union, the United Mine Workers of America, over a fifty-year period, with particular focus on the coal miners of Carbon and Emery counties in Utah. Derived from his much more limited in scope but award-winning master's thesis at Northern Arizona University, this book manuscript places that story in a broader context of changes in the union movement and the nation. It draws on a variety of primary sources, including original research in the UMWA archives at Penn State and multiple oral history collections"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Prologue

Introduction

Part I

1. The UMWA at High Tide

2. Twilight of the New Deal

3. Collapse

Part II

4. Prophets

5. Carbon County, USA

6. Hell or High Water

Part III

7. El Movimiento

8. A Quiet Revolution

9. Unbridled

Epilogue

Appendix A: Chronology

Appendix B: UMWA District 22 Locals, ca. 1983

Appendix C: Historic UMWA Locals in Utah

Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes

Bibliography

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60781-731-4