The United Mine Workers of America: a model of industrial solidarity?

Introduction : "A model of industrial solidarity?" : interpretaing the UMWA's first hundred years, 1890-1990 / John H. M. Laslett Founders and leaders of the United Mine Workers in its heyday, 1890-1960. British immigrant colliers, and the origin and early development of the UMWA, 1870-1912 / John H. M. Laslett Workplace militancy and unionization : the UMWA and the anthracite miners, 1890-1912 / Perry K. Blatz John Mitchell and the politics of the trade agreement, 1898-1917 / Craig Phelan "Something of a man" : John L. Lewis, the UMWA, and the CIO, 1919-1943 / Alan J. Singer John L. Lewis and the labor movement, 1940-1960 / Robert H. Zieger Work habits, miners' health, and coal company paternalism. Mechanization, workplace control, and the end of the hand-loading era / Keith Dix The miner's work environment : safety and company towns in the early 1900s / Price V. Fishback The role of the United Mine Workers in the prevention of work-related respiratory disease, 1890-1968 / Alan Derickson The rise and decline of the UMWA Health and Retirement Funds program, 1946-1995 / George S. Goldstein

Strikes, minorities, and the role of female activists. Black miners in West Virginia : class and community responses to workplace discrimination, 1920-1930 / Joe W. Trotter, Jr. Coal miners and the social equality wedge in Alabama, 1880-1908 / Ronald L. Lewis The UMWA and new immigrant miners in Pennsylvania bituminous : the case of Windber / Michael A. Beik The 1913-1914 Colorado Fuel and Iron strike, with reflections on the causes of coal-strike violence / Priscilla Long Ladies in white : female activism in southern Illinois coalfields, 1932-1938 / Stephane E. Booth International comparisons. Monopoly, competition, and collective bargaining : Pennsylvania and South Wales compared / Isaac Cohen "A parting of the ways" : immigrant miners and the rise of politically conscious trade unionism in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1865-1924 / John H. M. Laslett Industrial democracy and industrial legality : the UMWA in Nova Scotia, 1908-1927 / David Frank

Developments since 1960, and the struggle for renewal. Legacy of democratic reform : the Trunka administration and the challenge of the eighties / Paul F. Clark

Women go underground / Marat Moore

"Tying the knot of solidarity" : the Pittston strike of 1989-1990 / James R. Green

Afterword : Prospects for the UMWA / Maier B. Fox.