Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I

Author:   Carl R. Weinberg
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
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9780809326358


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 April 2005
Format:   Paperback
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Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I


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On April 15, 1918, as American troops fought German forces on the Western Front, German American coal miner Robert Prager was hanged from a tree outside Collinsville, Illinois, having been accused of disloyal utterances about the United States and chased out of town by a mob. In Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I, Carl R. Weinberg offers a new perspective on the Prager lynching and confronts the widely accepted belief among labor historians that workers benefited from demonstrating loyalty to the nation. The first published study of wartime strikes in southwestern Illinois is a powerful look at a group of people whose labor was essential to the war economy but whose instincts for class solidarity spawned a rebellion against mine owners both during and after the war. At the same time, their patriotism wreaked violent working-class disunity that crested in the brutal murder of an immigrant worker. Weinberg argues that the heightened patriotism of the Prager lynching masked deep class tensions within the mining communities of southwestern Illinois that exploded after the Great War ended.

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Author:   Carl R. Weinberg
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint:   Southern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9780809326358


ISBN 10:   0809326353
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 April 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Weinberg makes an original contribution to scholarship on U.S. labor during World War I, and his controversial conclusions are likely to stir useful debate among all those who are Interested in understanding the American homefront during the Great War. -Joseph A. McCartin author of Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921


"""Weinberg makes an original contribution to scholarship on U.S. labor during World War I, and his controversial conclusions are likely to stir useful debate among all those who are Interested in understanding the American homefront during the Great War.""-Joseph A. McCartin author of Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921"""


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Carl R. Weinberg is a labor historian whose articles and reviews have been published in New Georgia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of American Labor, Georgia Historical Quarterly, and Oral History Review. He teaches labor studies at Indiana University.

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