Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion
Title | Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion PDF eBook |
Author | Carl R. Weinberg |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2005-04-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0809388421 |
On April 5, 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.
Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion
Title | Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion PDF eBook |
Author | Carl R. Weinberg |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2005-04-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0809326353 |
On April 5, 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.
The Tug of War
Title | The Tug of War PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Weinberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1268 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Coal miners |
ISBN |
The Struggle for Labor Loyalty
Title | The Struggle for Labor Loyalty PDF eBook |
Author | F. L. Grubbs |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
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To End All Wars
Title | To End All Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Hochschild |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 501 |
Release | 2011-04-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0547549210 |
In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before... World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. Hochschild forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn’t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?
The Struggle for Labor Loyalty
Title | The Struggle for Labor Loyalty PDF eBook |
Author | Frank L. Grubbs (jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
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The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion
Title | The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion PDF eBook |
Author | John Warner Barber |
Publisher | |
Pages | 778 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | Mississippi River Valley |
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