Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

by Thomas G. Andrews and Thomas Andrews

Book Overview

On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado's industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners' families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, and laid waste to two company towns.

Killing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674046919
• ISBN13: 9780674046917
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"