All that glitters
Subtitle: class, conflict, and community in Cripple Creek
By: Elizabeth Jameson.
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Gold miners -- Colorado -- Cripple Creek -- History; Miners -- Labor unions -- Colorado -- Cripple Creek -- History; Gold mines and mining -- Colorado -- Cripple Creek -- History
Description: At the turn of the century, Colorado's Cripple Creek District captured the national imagination with the extraordinary wealth of its gold mines and the unquestionable strength of the militant Western Federation of Miners. In All That Glitters, Elizabeth Jameson tells the better-than-fiction story of Cripple Creek, the scene in 1894 of one of radical labor's most stunning victories and in 1903-4 of one of its most crushing defeats.

Jameson's sources include working-class oral histories, the Victor and Cripple Creek Daily Press, published by thirty-four of the local labor unions, and the 1900 manuscript census. She connects unions with lodges and fraternal associations, ethnic identity, families, households, and partisan politics. Through these ties, she probes the differences in age, skill, gender, marital status, and ethnicity that strained working-class unity and contributed to the fall of labor in Cripple Creek.

Jameson's book will be required reading for western, ethnic, and working-class historians seeking an alternative interpretation of western mining struggles that emphasizes class, gender, and multiple sources of social identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Not a poor man's camp; title: Staking the claims; title: In union there is strength; title: Sirs and brothers; title: Imperfect unions; title: A white man's camp; title: Class-conscious lines; title: As if we lived in free America; title: Look away over Jordan.