Next Time We Strike (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780874211610)

May 1, 1900 turned into a day of horror at Scofield, Utah, where a mine explosion killed two hundred men. In the traumatic days that followed, the surviving miners began to understand that they, too, might be called to make this ultimate sacrifice for mine owners. The time for unionization in Utah was at hand.

A sensitive and in-depth portrayal of the efforts to unionize Utah's coal miners, The Next Time We Strike explores the ethnic tensions and nativistic sentiments that hampered unionization efforts even in the face of mine explosions and economic exploitation. Powell utilizes oral interviews, coal company reports, newspapers, letters, and union records to tell the story from the miners' perspective.

Author: Allan Powell
ISBN-10: 0874211611
ISBN-13: 9780874211610
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1992
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback