Labor Revolt In Alabama
Labor Revolt In Alabama

Author: Robert David Ward

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2003-09-29

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0817350578

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The gripping story of the 1894 Alabama coal miners strike The Alabama coal miners’ strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions. The authors recount the depression of the early 1890s, which set the stage for the strike, and the subsequent use of convict labor, which became a catalyst. The gripping story of the strike includes the dramatic decision to strike and corporate attempts to break the strike by the use of company guards and “scab” labor. In Alabama corporate bosses inflamed passions further by deploying African American “black leg” workers, ultimately requiring the deployment of the state militia to restore peace.

It is Union and Liberty
It is Union and Liberty

Author: Edwin L. Brown

Publisher: University Alabama Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Much of Alabama's labor history is written in its coalfields. This book records the critical contribution that District 20 of the United Mine Workers of America played in the state's labor movement through its strong stands on such issues as child labor, public education, and interracial unions.

Organizing Dixie
Organizing Dixie

Author: Philip Taft

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1981-03-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313214476

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Alabama has the largest industrial work force in the South. As a consequence, it also has the most significant labor movement in the region, a movement created in the face of an unusual combination of obstacles, yet, as this book shows, by the 1970s organized labor had established itself as a major economic and political force in Alabama.

The Challenge of Interracial Unionism
The Challenge of Interracial Unionism

Author: Daniel Letwin

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780807846780

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This study explores a tradition of interracial unionism that persisted in the coal fields of Alabama from the dawn of the New South through the turbulent era of World War I. Daniel Letwin focuses on the forces that prompted black and white miners to colla

The General Textile Strike of 1934
The General Textile Strike of 1934

Author: John A. Salmond

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Yet, barely eighteen months later, with 300,000 dues-paying members, with newly established or revived branches covering southern cotton textile workers, as well as northern woolen and worsted workers, silk and jacquard weavers, dyers and finishers, even rayon workers, and with locals in 208 cities, towns, and mill villages, the UTW was about to embark on what one historian has termed "the greatest single industrial conflict in the history of American labor." The General Textile Strike of 1934 is the story of that conflict."