Conflict and accommodation
Subtitle: coal miners, steel workers, and socialism, 1890-1920
By: Michael Nash.
Series: Contributions in labor history,; no. 11
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Coal miners -- Pennsylvania -- Political activity -- History; Iron and steel workers -- Pennsylvania -- Political activity -- History; Elections -- Pennsylvania -- History; Socialism -- United States -- History
Description: This book focuses on the political behavior of the 600,000 men in the coal and steel industries, to reveal a fascinating correlation between labor-management conflict and the fortunes of American socialism. The author presents data from election returns, newspapers, union journals, government reports, and taped interviews with retired coal miners to support the view that the alternation of conflict and accommodation, characteristic of American labor history, has broad political implications.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [181]-192.
Includes index.