Remembering Lattimer : labor, migration, and race in Pennsylvania anthracite country /

Remembering Lattimer : labor, migration, and race in Pennsylvania anthracite country /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Shackel, Paul A., author.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	The working class in American history Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Anthracite Coal Strike, Pa., 1897. Labor movement -- Pennsylvania -- History. Working class -- Pennsylvania -- History. Labor movement. Working class. Pennsylvania. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12020602

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ISBN:	9780252041990 9780252083686 9780252050732 0252050738 0252041992 0252083687
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Lattimer, Pennsylvania, is the location for one of labor's forgotten massacres, a result of the xenophobic fears prevalent during the turn of the 20th century. On September 10, 1897, about 400 strikers of eastern & southern European descent marched to close the Lattimer colliery. Without warning, the men were fired upon by the local sheriff & his posse. The shooters stood trial for the killing of the protestors & were acquitted. Though Lattimer is one of the largest tragedies in US labor history, a type of amnesia attached to the event, & the massacre has been largely forgotten in the national public memory. Many attempts to memorialize the Lattimer massacre failed, as labor & capital struggled to control memory of the event. Eventually, in 1972, the town erected a monument at the site. While Lattimer is a lesson about past labor & immigration practices, it is also about the ways in which communities perceive new immigrants.
Other form:	Print version: Shackel, Paul A. Remembering Lattimer Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018] 9780252041990

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
1. Anthracite Mining
2. The Lattimer Strike/Incident/Massacre
3. A Great Miscarriage of Justice and the Growth of the UMWA
4. Memory of Lattimer
5. The 1997 Centennial Commemoration and the Memory of Lattimer
6. Deindustrialization and the New Twenty-First-Century Immigrant
7. Turning the Corner
References
Index