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OverviewOn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carl R. WeinbergPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press Edition: 3rd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780809326341ISBN 10: 0809326345 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 30 April 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsWeinberg 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 Author InformationCarl 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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