Anthracite labor wars
Subtitle: tenancy, Italians, and organized crime in the northern coalfield of northeastern Pennsylvania, 1895-1959
By: Robert P. Wolensky and William A. Hastie Sr
Contributors: Hastie, William A.
Publisher: Canal History and Technology Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Easton, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780930973421
Subjects: Coal miners; History; Labor unions; Italian Foreign workers; Anthracite coal industry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.239-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Preface; title: List of figures; title: Part I. The subcontracting system at the Erie Coal Companies; title: Control, competitiveness, and conflict : an introduction to the subcontracting system; title: The Erie Coal Companies and the subcontracting system; title: Part II. Labor-management conflict at the Erie Coal Companies; title: Grassroots solidarity : Italians, Wildcatters, and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1903-1916; title: The labor rebellions of 1920 and 1924-25 : the United Mineworkers of America and the Erie Coal Companies; title: The subcontracting rebellion at the No. 6 Colliery, 1928; title: Part III. The leasing system, labor's response, anthracite's decline; title: The leasing system : tenancy, organized crime, and labor resistance; title: Tenancy systems and the decline of the northern anthracite industry; title: Part IV. Postscript : Italian mineworkers in anthracite; title: The Italian community on strike : a forgotten chapter in anthracite labor and ethnic history; title: Notes; title: References; title: Appendix I. Glossary; title: Appendix II. Short biographies; title: Index; title: About the author.