The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. John H. M. Laslett; and The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921, by Daniel LetwinHowardW.T.ingentaconnectInternational Labor & Working Class History...
Define United Mine Workers. United Mine Workers synonyms, United Mine Workers pronunciation, United Mine Workers translation, English dictionary definition of United Mine Workers. Noun 1. United Mine Workers - an industrial union of mine workers in North
it has been endorsed by the United Mine Workers, National Nurses United, the Machinists’ Union, Amalgamated Transit Union and many others. Single-payer health care is a pro-active, rather than a reactive, approach to workers’ health. It is an ambitious program, but workers deserve no less...
Asian Immigrant Coal Miners and the United Mine Workers of America: Race and Class at Rock Springs, Wyoming, 1907 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 15 作者: Yuji Ichioka 摘要: asian immigrant coal miners and the united mine workers of america: race and class at rock springs, wyoming, ...
asian immigrant coal miners and the united mine workers of america: race and class at rock springs, wyoming, 1907Without abstract.doi:10.17953/amer.6.2.0nk3q53175077331Yuji IchiokaAmerasia JournalAmerasia journal
The events and individuals described in Mark A. Bradley’s new nonfiction book are endlessly fascinating and supremely distressing.Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of Americadetails the corrupt and bloody leadership of Tony Boyle...
for workers to organize unions. The labor protections extended by Roosevelt’s New Deal were revolutionary. In northern industrial cities, workers responded to worsening conditions by banding together and demanding support for workers’ rights. In 1935, the head of the United Mine Workers, John L....
Additionally, older retiredcoal workers' pensions are dependent on the survival of the coal industry. For example, the United Mine Workers of America, the leading trade union in the U.S., runs a pension fund with only 10,000 workers supporting over120,000 retired coal workers. There are sev...
Poor pay and working conditions led to work stoppages by the Pullman Railroad Workers and the United Mine Workers, but both strikes were broken up by the government.Eugene Debs, leader of the American Railway Union in the 1894 strike against the Pullman Company, was unable to convince members ...
The Great Anthracite Coal Strike started when 147,000 coal miners who were part of theUnited Mine Workers of America (UMWA)went on strike in eastern Pennsylvania from May to October 1902.Many feared that the strike would result in a major energy crisis, as the area of Pennsylvania where the...