A Strike like No Other Strike
Subtitle: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801869013
Subjects: Political science & theory; Strikes; Work & labour; c 1980 to c 1990; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Courts; Labor Disputes; United States; Politics / Current Events; Political questions and judicial power; Law; USA; Government - State & Provincial; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / General; Strikes and lockouts; Courts - General; West Virginia; 20th century; Coal mining; History; Law and legislation
First sentence: During the strike in 1989-90 by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against operations of the Pittston Coal Group and its subsidiaries in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky, the UMWA and its allies engaged in a wide range of protests that resulted in a series of injunctions against the union.
Description: "In A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990, Richard Brisbin offers a compelling study of the exercise of political power. In considering the legal significance of the strike, Brisbin asks the larger question of whether even extreme transgression or resistance can fracture the "imagined coherence of the law." He shows how each party in the strike invoked the law to justify its actions while attacking those of the other side as unlawful.

In the end, both sides lost; although the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled in favor of the union, most of the strikers faced elimination of their jobs and an ongoing struggle for pensions and health benefits."--BOOK JACKET.