Remembering Lattimer: labor, migration, and race in Pennsylvania anthracite country
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Beteilige Person: Shackel, Paul A. 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Urbana University of Illinois Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:The working class in American history
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Abstract:"On September 10, 1897, four hundred striking coal miners of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers killed nineteen miners and wounded thirty-eight others. Paul A. Shackel confronts the legacies and lessons of the Lattimer event. He traces how the violence, and the acquittal of the deputies who perpetrated it, spurred membership in the United Mine Workers. His blend of archival and archaeological research with interviews weights how locals remember - and forget - what happened. Now in positions of power, the descendants of the slain miners have themselves become rabidly anti-union and anti-immigrant as Dominicans and other Latinos change the community. Shackel shows how the social, economic, and political circumstances surrounding historic Lattimer connect in profound ways to the riven communities of today." -- Cover page 4
Umfang:ix, 155 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 23 cm
ISBN:9780252083686
9780252041990