Alan singer’s new book, class conscious coal miners

Alan’s new book of the singer, the central pennsylvania miners won because they are fighting at many levels: against the mechanization, democracy in the Union for American mines. The singer follows them as an open shop drivers, trying to bring a program to nationalize the mines, increasingly autocratic John L. Lewis took the back part of the Union Movement.

What did you first encourage you to bring the project to this project and bring the project to a book form now?

I am interested in the GRamscian concept of organic intellectuals for the 20060s and civil rights and civil rights in the 1960s and the organizer of community organizers, especially for working class and marginalized groups. Over the years, I became a member of the New York City Taxicab Drivers Association, a member of the Transit Employees Association, AFT UFT and a member of the Termitab Drivers Association, which has recently become a member of AAUP / NYSUT.

I started the project Class Conscious Coal Miners: The emergence of a working-level movement in Central PennsylvaniaIn the 1970s, in the 1990s, when I went to the Central Pennsylvania coal, he will meet with the miners in the 1920s in the 1920s. Between World War II World War II World War II was among the traditional unity of coal miners in Johnstown and Pittsburg, and traditional unity in the United States. My original plan was to study clothing workers in New York, but many of the documents in the Ilgwu archive were either Yiddish or Italian. Central Pennsylvania and two new languages ​​were easier to drive to Central Pennsylvania and research coal miners. My dissertation and my book meetings with former miners, census notes, libraries, association and government archives, cultural works, unity and left publications, newspapers and magazines. I have been a high school teacher and teacher based on the university for most of my career. The study in the study is aimed at changing the concept of students and students as potential organic intellectuals for the movement of the world and students in which students and students lives. My interest in the transformational consciousness came back to the miners before.

Many historians think that the history of miners is a good trod. You can say a few things to readers that will be able to help you understand that the full story of the miners does not fully speak?

The history of the American miners and UMWA President John L. Lewisin’s role in the labor movement was also widely investigated. My work is the development of the ranking and file-miners and employee-level consciousness. In the 1920s, Central Pennsylvania coal miners opposed the national leadership of UMWA and campaigns installed in neighboring areas. During the Great Depression Coal Miners, the organization of workers in other areas and during World War II, President Roosevelt and the Federal Government and the Federal Government and Master and corporate drunk. One of my main findings is that the class consciousness should look like liquid, rising and falling depending on the conditions of people in people’s lives.

How did the mining communities shape what you say in your title: class awareness?

A number of factors contributed to the development of class consciousness in bituminous coal cultures. Manually selected bituminous coal miners worked in deep underground isolation and it was almost impossible to control. Coal seams decided to be safe and decided to work and how much the production has chosen and violated the freedom of production and resisted corporate efforts to reconstruct production along the factory lines. Regular danger helped group solidarity. New miners, often sons, other relatives and immigrants from the European village of a miner, learned the artistry and commitment of unity from the large miners. In addition, most mine patches were isolated in mountainous areas. The miners have made a little choice other than the company’s store, and rented homes from coal companies, which are a source of constant tension. Work decreased, injured a miner or when a family member was sick, the miner families fell to the company store. To support tightening miners, one of the innovations of the district 2 was modeled in the revival matches of the religious tent. They offered entertainment and educational classes and helped build a community spirit. Women were not legally allowed to work in the fields of coal before the 1940s, although some women were always leased to a small family, mines were thrown directly. Miners, women, mothers, wives and girls were the key to success in labor struggles. In 1924, heisley, one of the largest coal companies in Cambria County, which is 564 employees, announced that he will open his operation and re-open the union. The women were in the forefront of the organized opposition to the company’s actions, and eleven women were arrested for visiting and insulting ideas in Heisley employees, as well as hooting employees and employees. “

Why was the leadership of the United States to the leadership of United Mine employees, often the management of the union, long ago, long ago. Why is it important to remember this collapse?

There were a number of fractions inside Umwa. The union had a federal structure of sub-regions within national and government agencies and states and various coal areas. There was a philosophy of employees in the national office, and attempted to combine control of the federal government, cooperating with management teams. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania and Western Pennsylvania and Western Pennsylvania and Western Pennsylvania and Western Pennsylvania and Western Pennsylvania and non-union areas, and promoted a unified contract. Opposition leaders in organized regions in the regions such as Illinois and Kansas Kansas demanded more local control over the contract negotiations. The Central Pennsylvania was outside the CCF on the district, because the narrow coal stitches were more closely pushed to the main shafts of employees, which increase the price of coal cars. National and district union officials, the nature of corporations and the nature of the federal and state governments, region 2 (Illinois), region 2 (Illinois), the region (central pennsylvania), the region (Western Pennsylvania), the region (Western Pennsylvania), the region (Western Pennsylvania), the region (Western Pennsylvania) has created a sustainable rank and file. We see this degree and the file awareness of the class consciousness among opposition groups.

You use a prospect from the bottom above to understand the role of John Brofi’s (and the subsequent CIO leader) of the Union. How does Pennsylvania’s miners feel better in the life of a brace?

Most of the interviews with retired coal miners chose the Naniman-Glo Pennsylvania between the 2nd and World War 2 and 29 Naniman-Glo. Brofy’s brother and her husband and her husband and her mine in Nanti-Glo and I made extensive interviews in the district that challenged the John L. Lewis and Umwa National Office. From 1916 to 1927, the district President John Brofy remained active in the organization of local residents of NNITI and GLO to the residents of the local and friends. Brofy, in 1926 in 1926 in 1926, a mass frauduler by open shops, mass frauduler in 1926, the president of Umwa’s Association John Lwis and in the 1930s in the 1930s in the 1930s. Brofy’s activities and magazines and magazines and magazines and magazines and magazines and magazines and letters, a meatball proteger, as the Labor and Socialist organizer, as they fought in the 1920s, were well documented.

It has a narrative narrative texture. Nany-glo, like Pennsylvania, let us know what you discover about these long forgotten places.

When the dissertation collapses in the collapse of industrial and opposition groups, the great depression was the beginning of the struggle of rank and file movements in societies such as nany-glo. Prohibited Communist Miners from Umwa, attempted to organize as part of a new union, but met with little success. The book looks at the revival of local children in cities like Nany-Glo in the local UMWA and thirties and forty days. After World War II, the transition to oil and new mining techniques UMWA and coal cultures to eliminate UMWA and coal cultures. One of the things I found was the loss of the union and work as a source of identity, changed consciousness. In 2016 and 2020, in the presidential election, the communities that previously supported a military movement of the military were the main sources of support for Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns.

Alan Singer, Hofstra University, Long Island, New York is a social research and historian in the Department of Learning and Technology. The former New York High School teacher and regular blogs Daily Kos and other sites on education, labor and political issues. Dr. The singer is a graduate of New York City College and is a doctor of science. From the University of Rutgers in American history. He is the author of Education Flashpoints (Routledge, 2014), To teach, learn to learn: a bookbook for high school teachers, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2013), Social work for secondary schools, 5th edition (Routledge, 2024), Global history teaching, 2nd edition (ROUTLEDGE, 2020), Climate History Teaching (Routedge 2022), Time to teach New York and Slavery, Truth (SUNY, 2008), New York’s Grand Emancipation Anniversary (SUNY, 2018) and Class conscious coal miners (SUNY, 2024). It is a co-author Supports civil education with student activity (Routledge, 2021). He said, “ACCEPTIONS: Civil Rights Movement in North Hempstead,” New York Curriculum was the director of the Curriculum Curriculum and “New York and Traveler Editor” and “New York and Traveler Editor” and “New York and Resistance and Resistance” Curriculum. Both curriculum projects were buyers of the National Council for the perfect reward program. Bridge is a dei curriculum consultant with a group of cultures.