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Title: Relationship between radicalism and ethnicity in southern Illinois coal fields

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the relationship between radicalism and ethnicity in the coal fields of southern Illinois between 1870 and 1940. Immigrant coal miners in these fields and in other fields throughout the United States have been linked by previous researchers to activities that have caused them to be labelled as radicals. They have also been judged as being detrimental to the union movement in this country because they worked for lower wages than native workers, served as strikebreakers, and did not become union members. To determine what relationship existed between radicalism and ethnicity in the southern Illinois coal fields, the ethnic background of the miners was obtained. After the ethnic background of the miners was known, the activities in which they participated were examined to determine where in the southern Illinois coal fields these radical activities were occurring and who was participating in them. This dissertation demonstrates that no relationship between ethnicity and radicalism existed during the period.

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6619558
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Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; COAL MINERS; HISTORICAL ASPECTS; MINORITY GROUPS; COAL MINING; LABOR RELATIONS; ILLINOIS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS; FEDERAL REGION V; HUMAN POPULATIONS; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; MINERS; MINING; NORTH AMERICA; PERSONNEL; POPULATIONS; USA; 294001* - Energy Planning & Policy- Coal; 290200 - Energy Planning & Policy- Economics & Sociology; 015000 - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects

Citation Formats

Booth, S E. Relationship between radicalism and ethnicity in southern Illinois coal fields. United States: N. p., 1983. Web.
Booth, S E. Relationship between radicalism and ethnicity in southern Illinois coal fields. United States.
Booth, S E. 1983. "Relationship between radicalism and ethnicity in southern Illinois coal fields". United States.
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title = {Relationship between radicalism and ethnicity in southern Illinois coal fields},
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abstractNote = {The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the relationship between radicalism and ethnicity in the coal fields of southern Illinois between 1870 and 1940. Immigrant coal miners in these fields and in other fields throughout the United States have been linked by previous researchers to activities that have caused them to be labelled as radicals. They have also been judged as being detrimental to the union movement in this country because they worked for lower wages than native workers, served as strikebreakers, and did not become union members. To determine what relationship existed between radicalism and ethnicity in the southern Illinois coal fields, the ethnic background of the miners was obtained. After the ethnic background of the miners was known, the activities in which they participated were examined to determine where in the southern Illinois coal fields these radical activities were occurring and who was participating in them. This dissertation demonstrates that no relationship between ethnicity and radicalism existed during the period.},
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year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983},
month = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983}
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