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All That Glitters:

Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (POD)

ISBN-13: 9780252066900
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Elizabeth Jameson
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Local release date: 16/03/1998
Format: Paperback 400 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History [HB]

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Google Preview: At the turn of the century, Colorado's Cripple Creek District captured the national imagination with the extraordinary wealth of its gold mines and the unquestionable strength of the militant Western Federation of Miners.In All That Glitters, Elizabeth Jameson tells the better-than-fiction story of Cripple Creek, the scene in 1894 of one of radical labor's most stunning victories and in 1903-4 of one of its most crushing defeats.Jameson's sources include working-class oral histories, the Victor and Cripple Creek Daily Press, published by thirty-four of the local labor unions, and the 1900 manuscript census. She connects unions with lodges and fraternal associations, ethnic identity, families, households, and partisan politics. Through these ties, she probes the differences in age, skill, gender, marital status, and ethnicity that strained working-class unity and contributed to the fall of labor in Cripple Creek.Jameson's book will be required reading for western, ethnic, and working-class historians seeking an alternative interpretation of western mining struggles that emphasizes class, gender, and multiple sources of social identity.A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz.A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1999. Winner of the Rodman W. Paul Award for Outstanding Contributions to Mining History, 1999.; ''Combines the sophisticated methods of the new social history to explore organized labor and labor politics within the context of a community study... A thoroughly brilliant portrait of Cripple Creek that replaces earlier studies.'' -- M. L. Dolan, Social and Behavioral Sciences; Google Preview content

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All That Glitters:

Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (POD)