Thunder In the Mountains : The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21

Name: Thunder In the Mountains
Brand: University of Pittsburgh Press
SKU: 9780822954262
Price: 4050 KES
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ISBN: 9780822954262

by Lon Savage

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Regional

ISBN-10 0822954265

ISBN-13 9780822954262

Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 6th, 1990

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 350 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 13.80 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Industrial relations, occupational health and safety Strikes History History of the Americas

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Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21.

The West Virginia mine war of 1920–21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the US Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners. The civil war began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. Thunder in the Mountains was the first book-length account of this crisis in American industrial relations and governance, much neglected in historical accounts.

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