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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Thomas G., 1972-

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914.

Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Colorado--History.

Strikes and lockouts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 386 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a story of transformation, Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-370) and index.

ISBN:

9780674020214

0674020219