“LABOR HAS A LONG MEMORY”: TRANSFORMATIONS IN CAPITALISM AND LABOR ORGANIZING IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA, 1977-2019

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dc.contributor.advisorFreund, Daviden_US
dc.contributor.authorHeim, Daviden_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-20T05:42:54Z
dc.date.available2019-06-20T05:42:54Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractIn 1989 the UMWA went on strike against Pittston Coal. In response to declining union power and corporate anti-unionism, the UMWA embraced community members and women as participants in its striking strategy. Although sometimes reluctant to do so, the union accepted the involvement of non-miners in non-violent demonstrations and civil disobedience, and was successful because of the strategic shift. The victory against Pittston Coal in 1989 suggests that scholars cannot rule industrial unions as sites of resistance to capitalism after 1982. The union’s acceptance of community organizing in 1989 also suggests a link between the strategies and success of the Pittston Strike and more recent organizing victories in West Virginia—the West Virginia Teachers’ Strikes. More recent labor militancy in Appalachia has also built off of legacies of resistance dating back to events like the Paint Creek Mine War and the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1912 and 1921.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/ktry-txxa
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22050
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAppalachiaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCapitalismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCommunityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLabor Historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNeoliberalismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUMWen_US
dc.title“LABOR HAS A LONG MEMORY”: TRANSFORMATIONS IN CAPITALISM AND LABOR ORGANIZING IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA, 1977-2019en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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