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Cargando... The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising (2004)por Robert Shogan
![]() My Genealogy Library (79) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() This is an interesting, readable account of an uprising of United Mine Workers members in West Virginia shortly after World War I. It shows how the entire community was affected by the strike, with phone operators taking sides and miners' wives working as nurses. It shows how local politicians took sides, and the role of mercenary forces. The federal government's involvement was also described. I especially liked the concluding chapter which put the uprising in both its historical and modern-day context. Shogan gives the history of the West Virginia miners' slow path towards unionization, and then the fierce militarism that followed. He's a bit more sympathetic towards the miners, and does on occasion point out the incompetency of the (then) West Virginia governor during the Battle of Blair Mountain. It's a good story, although I like the older Thunder in the Mountains a bit better. This book might have been a bit better with a few more pictures and a better map. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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This long-neglected slice of American history is a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of twentieth-century America. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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