Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders And The Battle For The United Mine Workers Of America

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Synopsis
A vivid account of “one of the most shocking episodes in organized labor’s blood-soaked history” (Steve Halvonik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Behind the assassination was the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle, who had long embezzled UMWA funds, silenced intra-union dissent, and served the interests of Big Coal companies—and would do anything to maintain power. The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders catalyzed the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history. Blood Runs Coal is an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation’s major unions on the brink of historical change.
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
352 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780393652543
Related ISBNs:
9780393652536, 9780393868395
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
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Copyrighted By:
Mark A. Bradley
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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