African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry by Trotter, Joe William
African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry by Trotter, Joe William

African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry

Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.This collection brings together...
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African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry by Trotter, Joe William

African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry

$324.86
African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry by Trotter, Joe William

African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry

$324.86
Author: Joe William Trotter
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.

This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. It shows how, with deep roots in the antebellum era of chattel slavery, West Virginia's Black working class gradually picked up steam during the emancipation years following the Civil War and dramatically expanded during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

From there, African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry highlights the decline of the region's Black industrial proletariat under the impact of rapid technological, social, and political changes following World War II. It underscores how all miners suffered unemployment and outmigration from the region as global transformations took their toll on the coal industry, but emphasizes the disproportionately painful impact of declining bituminous coal production on African American workers, their families, and their communities. Joe Trotter not only reiterates the contributions of proletarianization to our knowledge of US labor and working-class history but also draws attention to the gender limits of studies of Black life that focus on class formation, while calling for new transnational perspectives on the subject. Equally important, this volume illuminates the intellectual journey of a noted labor historian with deep family roots in the southern Appalachian coalfields.



Author: Joe William Trotter
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 02/01/2024
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.15w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9781959000129

About the Author
Joe William Trotter Jr. is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice at Carnegie Mellon University, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and author of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America and Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism.
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