Union Renegades

Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age

Dana M. Caldemeyer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2021
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08540-6 (ISBN)

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In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to check corporate control, workers were often caught between these institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and independence in an otherwise unstable age. Nuanced and eye-opening, Union Renegades challenges popular notions of workers attitudes during the Gilded Age.

Dana M. Caldemeyer is an assistant professor of history at South Georgia State College.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Deceived: Producers in a Dishonest World
2 Undermined: Winter Diggers, Union Strikebreakers
3 “Judases”: Union “Betrayal” and the Aborted 1891 Strike
4 Outsiders: Race and the Exclusive Politics of an Inclusive Union, 1892-1894
5 Unsettled: Non-Union Mobilization and the 1894 Strike
6 Wolves: Fractured Unions in the Gilded Age, 1894-1896
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Working Class in American History
Zusatzinfo	4 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08540-X / 025208540X
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08540-6 / 9780252085406
Zustand	Neuware