Format:
Book
Title:
Killing for coal : America's deadliest labor war / Thomas G. Andrews.
Author:
Andrews, Thomas G., 1972-
Call Number:
331.892822 ANDREWS
Publisher, Date:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Description:
x, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914.
Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- Colorado -- History.
Massacres -- Colorado -- Ludlow -- History -- 20th century.
Coal miners -- Labor unions -- Colorado -- History -- 20th century.
Industrial relations -- Colorado -- Ludlow -- History -- 20th century.
Ludlow (Colo.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Contents:
Introduction: civil war, red and bloody -- A dream of coal-fired benevolence -- The reek of the new industrialism -- Riding the wave to survive an earth transformed -- Dying with their boots on -- Out of the depths and on to the march -- The quest for containment -- Shouting the battle cry of union.
ISBN:
0674031016
9780674031012 (alk. paper)
9780674046917