| Description |
1 online resource |
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The working class in American history |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Anthracite mining -- The Lattimer Strike/incident/massacre -- A great miscarriage of justice and the growth of the UMWA -- Memory of Lattimer -- The 1997 centennial commemoration and the memory of Lattimer -- Deindustrialization and the new twenty-first-century immigrant -- Turning the corner |
| Summary |
Lattimer, Pennsylvania, is the location for one of labor's forgotten massacres, a result of the xenophobic fears prevalent during the turn of the 20th century. On September 10, 1897, about 400 strikers of eastern & southern European descent marched to close the Lattimer colliery. Without warning, the men were fired upon by the local sheriff & his posse. The shooters stood trial for the killing of the protestors & were acquitted. Though Lattimer is one of the largest tragedies in US labor history, a type of amnesia attached to the event, & the massacre has been largely forgotten in the national public memory. Many attempts to memorialize the Lattimer massacre failed, as labor & capital struggled to control memory of the event. Eventually, in 1972, the town erected a monument at the site. While Lattimer is a lesson about past labor & immigration practices, it is also about the ways in which communities perceive new immigrants |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
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Anthracite Coal Strike, Pa., 1897.
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Labor movement -- Pennsylvania -- History
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Working class -- Pennsylvania -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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Labor movement
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Working class
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Pennsylvania
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019717347 |
| ISBN |
9780252050732 |
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0252050738 |
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