Killing for Coal : : America's Deadliest Labor War / / Thomas G. Andrews.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Andrews, Thomas G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction: Civil War, Red and Bloody --; 1. A Dream of Coal-Fired Benevolence --; 2. The Reek of the New Industrialism --; 3. Riding the Wave to Survive an Earth Transformed --; 4. Dying with Their Boots On --; 5. Out of the Depths and on to the March --; 6. The Quest for Containment --; 7. Shouting the Battle Cry of Union --; Epilogue --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674020214; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674020214
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas G. Andrews.

This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a story of transformation, Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century.