Coal Class Community
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Coal Class Community
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Author : Len Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Coal Class Community written by Len Richardson and has been published by Auckland University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.
Geographically isolated and long regarded as the 'quintessential' proletarians, industrial bogeymen and revolutionaries, coal miners occupy an important place in the history of industrial radicalism in New Zealand. Looking behind the stereotypes, Coal, Class and Community tells a story about New Zealand's industrial past, clearly identifying the central issues and paying attention to the colorful personalities involved. The book demonstrates how miners' sense that they had a historic mission to lead the assault upon the capitalist system brought them to the fore during New Zealand's greatest industrial upheavals: the Maritime Strike of 1890, the revolutionary turmoil of 1912-13 and the 1951 Waterfront Dispute.
Black Coal Miners In America
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Author : Ronald L. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-03-17
Black Coal Miners In America written by Ronald L. Lewis and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-17 with History categories.
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.
Coal Class And Color
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Author : Joe William Trotter
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1990
Coal Class And Color written by Joe William Trotter and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Scottish Coal Miners In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Jim Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-26
Scottish Coal Miners In The Twentieth Century written by Jim Phillips and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-26 with Business & Economics categories.
Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal minerThroughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history, and highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces and communities devastated. Key featuresExamines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised processUses generational analysis to explain economic and political changeRelates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfareAnalyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safetyRelates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations
Stabilization Of Bituminous Coal Mining Industry
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Stabilization Of Bituminous Coal Mining Industry written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Bituminous coal categories.
Stabilization Of The Bituminous Coal Mining Industry
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Author : United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commerce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Stabilization Of The Bituminous Coal Mining Industry written by United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commerce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with categories.
When Coal Was King
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Author : John Hinde
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
When Coal Was King written by John Hinde and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with History categories.
The town of Ladysmith was one of the most important coal-mining communities on Vancouver Island during the early twentieth century. The Ladysmith miners had a reputation for radicalism and militancy and engaged in bitter struggles for union recognition and economic justice, most notably the Great Strike of 1912-14. This strike, one of the longest and most violent labour disputes in Canadian history, marked a watershed in the history of the town and the coal industry.
Retail And Community
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Author : George Campbell Gosling
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2024-06-28
Retail And Community written by George Campbell Gosling and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local and the global, between the late-nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.
Class Conscious Coal Miners
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Author : Alan J. Singer
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2024-05-01
Class Conscious Coal Miners written by Alan J. Singer and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-01 with History categories.
Bituminous coal miners in Central Pennsylvania were among the most militant and class-conscious workers in the United States in the post-World War I era. Class-Conscious Coal Miners examines the development of working-class consciousness as they fought to sustain their union, jobs, communities, and work pejoratives, what they described as the Miner's Freedom, against mechanization and operator open shop drives in the 1920s. Their struggles brought them into conflict with coal companies, a pro-business federal government, and the business-unionist leadership of the United Mine Workers of America. After the collapse of the bituminous coal industry in Central Pennsylvania starting in the 1950s, working-class consciousness gradually diminished until, in the present century, there has been a marked shift toward political conservatism.
Coal Towns
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Author : Crandall A. Shifflett
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 1991
Coal Towns written by Crandall A. Shifflett and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.
Using oral histories, company records, and census data, Crandall A. Shifflett paints a vivid portrait of miners and their families in southern Appalachian coal towns from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century. He finds that, compared to their earlier lives on subsistence farms, coal-town life was not all bad. Shifflett examines how this view, quite common among the oral histories of these working families, has been obscured by the middle-class biases of government studies and the Edenic myth of preindustrial Appalachia propagated by some historians. From their own point of view, mining families left behind a life of hard labor and drafty weatherboard homes. With little time for such celebrated arts as tale-telling and quilting, preindustrial mountain people strung more beans than dulcimers. In addition, the rural population was growing, and farmland was becoming scarce. What the families recall about the coal towns contradicts the popular image of mining life. Most miners did not owe their souls to the company store, and most mining companies were not unusually harsh taskmasters. Former miners and their families remember such company benefits as indoor plumbing, regular income, and leisure activities. They also recall the United Mine Workers of America as bringing not only pay raises and health benefits but work stoppages and violent confrontations. Far from being mere victims of historical forces, miners and their families shaped their own destiny by forging a new working-class culture out of the adaptation of their rural values to the demands of industrial life. This new culture had many continuities with the older one. Out of the closely knit social ties they brought from farming communities, mining families created their own safety net for times of economic downturn. Shifflett recognizes the dangers and hardships of coal-town life but also shows the resilience of Appalachian people in adapting their culture to a new environment. Crandall A. Shifflett is an associate professor of history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.