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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry: 1925-1942

The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry: 1925-1942 - Paperback

by Mitch Troutman
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mitch Troutman, Staughton Lynd (Foreword by)Publish date:2022-08-16Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:PM PressISBN-13:9781629639338ISBN-10:1629639338UPC:9781629639338Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Labor & Industrial Relations, LGBTQ+ StudiesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC07D4F5Z1

Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies and courts to form a union that would safeguard not just their livelihoods, but protect their collective autonomy as citizens and workers for decades.


Community and Labor organizer Mitch Troutman brings this explosive and accessible American tale to life through the bootleggers' own words. Scholars, historians, organizers and activists will celebrate this story of the people who literally seized mountains and stood their ground to create the Equalization movement, the miners' union democracy movement, and the Communist-led Unemployed Councils of the anthracite region. This epic story of work, love and community stands as a testament to the power of collective action; a story that is sorely needed as communities today rise to confront neoliberal policies ravaging our planet.

Language:EnglishPublisher:PM PressISBN-13:9781629639338ISBN-10:1629639338UPC:9781629639338Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Labor & Industrial Relations, LGBTQ+ StudiesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC07D4F5Z1
Troutman, Mitch: -

Mitch Troutman is a writer, educator, organizer, and jack-of-all-trades living in Central Pennsylvania. He is a direct descendent of bootleg coal miners and belongs to the group Anthracite Unite.

Lynd, Staughton: -

Staughton Lynd is a historian, lawyer, activist, and author of many books and articles. Howard Zinn hired him to teach at Spelman College, a college for black women, during the early 1960s. He was coordinator of the Freedom Schools in Mississippi during the summer of 1964. As an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, he came to be unemployable as a university professor and became a lawyer. In Youngstown, Ohio, he fought for and lost the fight against plant shutdowns and for worker/community ownership of the mills. When Ohio built its supermaximum security prison in Youngstown, Staughton and his wife Alice, spearheaded a class action that went to the Supreme Court of the United States, establishing due process rights of supermaximum security prisoners.

Publisher: PM Press

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Mitch Troutman, Staughton Lynd (Foreword by)

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Mitch Troutman

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