Harlan Miners Speak (eBook)

Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields

Members of the National Committee for the Defense (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2015
352 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-5984-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for greater union membership, class resentment turned to warfare.

Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, is an invaluable record that illustrates the living and working conditions of the miners during the 1930s. This edition of Harlan Miners Speak, with a new introduction by noted historian John C. Hennen, offers readers an in-depth look at a pivotal crisis in the complex history of this controversial form of energy production.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.1.2015
• Einführung: John C. Hennen
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: American labor history • Coal mining history • coal mining in america • coal mining social history • great depression history • John Dos Passos • kentucky coal industry • kentucky history • miners strikes • Theodore Dreiser
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-5984-9 / 0813159849
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-5984-3 / 9780813159843