The Life Of Fred Thompson Fred Thompson & David Roediger 1994 93p 5 x 8 Fred Thompson—1900–1987—socialist, Wobbly, organizer, soapboxer, editor, class-war prisoner, educator, historian, and publisher (it was he who spearheaded the effort to get the Charles H. Kerr Company back on its feet in the 1970s). Here … Continue reading Fellow Worker
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Clifford D. Conner 2005 568p 5 x 8 You’ve probably heard the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the … Continue reading A People’s History of Science
Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 Barbara Kingslover 1989 213p 5 x 8 Hundreds of families held the line in the 1983 strike against Phelps Dodge Copper in Arizona. After more than a year the strikers lost their union certification, but the battle permanently altered the social order in … Continue reading Holding the Line
The True Story of Labor’s Martyred Pioneers in the Coalfields Anthony Bimba 1932 144p 5 x 8 A forgotten chapter in the history of American labor, revealing the true nature of the so-called Molly Maguires as pioneers and martyrs in a determined struggle of the Pennsylvania anthracite region miners … Continue reading The Molly Maguires
Émile Zola 1885 400p MMPB Classic novel about a miners’ strike in northern france – the struggle for life and diginity before the arrival of formal unions. $2-5 Other works involving labor struggles, miners, france, fiction
The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising Robert Shogan 2004 296p 6 x 9 The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history – the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and exploitation, … Continue reading The Battle of Blair Mountain