"Everybody was black down there"; race and industrial change in the Alabama coalfields.9780820328799 "Everybody was black down there"; race and industrial change in the Alabama coalfields. Woodrum, Robert H. Univ. of Georgia Press 2007 304 pages $24.95 Paperback Politics and society in the modern South HD8039 Woodrum (history, Clark Atlanta U.) offers an account of black miners in the Alabama coal mining industry during the twentieth century, problems in the industry, and how they affected miners and their communities. He discusses the decline in the black workforce over the period and why it happened with a strong United Mine Workers of America United Mine Workers of America (UMW), international labor union formed (1890) by the amalgamation of the National Progressive Union (organized 1888) and the mine locals under the Knights of Labor. It is an industrial union, including all workers in the coal industry. presence in the coalfields. Race relations race relations Noun, pl the relations between members of two or more races within a single community race relations npl → relaciones fpl raciales , how miners and the union dealt with aspects of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation , and gender issues are also explored. The book is based on Woodrum's dissertation dis·ser·ta·tion n. A lengthy, formal treatise, especially one written by a candidate for the doctoral degree at a university; a thesis. dissertation Noun 1. . ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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