Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (820 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674046919 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Denver Westword 2009-03-27)Andrews brings a 21st-century approach to this once-troubled landscape where the region's voracious need for fuel trumped the rights and independence of the men who dragged it out of the ground. Anyone interested in the history of labor, the environment, and the American West will want to read this book. (William Cronon, author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West)Killing for Coal is a stunning achievement. (Sandra Dallas Denver Post 2009-02-15)Thomas G. (A. Beautifully written and masterfully researched, it stands as the definitive history of the dramatic events at Ludlow and breaks new ground in our understanding of industrialization and the environment. (Emily F. (James Green Dissent 2009-05-01)Andrews does an excellent job of pla
Thomas G. . Andrews is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder
The resulting elucidation of the coalfield wars goes far beyond traditional labor history. Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a sweeping story of transformation that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century. He reveals a complex world shaped by the connected forces of land, labor, corporate industrialization, and workers’ resistance.Brilliantly conceived and written, this book takes the organic world as its starting point. Considering issues of social and environmental justice in the context of an economy dependent on fossil fue
An ambitious, over-the-top history that I nonetheless found worthwhile R. M. Peterson Most "massacre" sites in the Great Plains are from the campaigns to remove the Indians. One exception is the Ludlow Massacre site, just off I-25 between the Colorado cities of Trinidad and Pueblo, snug against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. There, the "massacre" occurred during a labor war -- "America's Deadliest Labor War" -- between coal miners . A Fascinating Read Matthew W. Quinn KILLING FOR COAL is a fascinating look into a part of American history that's really not well-known. It starts out with a fascinating description of how the Colorado coal fields formed millions of years ago and continues on by describing how the mining of coal revolutionized the lives of the people living in the energy-poor and hostile West, although thi. Class Conflict in Colorado "Killing for Coal" tells the history of the industrial conflicts that gripped Colorado's coalfields in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It's an excellent history, well-written, well-illustrated, and filled with sharp observations about the work of coal-mining and the nefarious methods employed by coal companies to break miners' unions. I took off