Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Marat Moore Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0316
Scope and Contents
The Marat Moore Collection consists of audiotapes, transcriptions of Moore's interviews of women coal miners, and photographs of selected women miners. Related items such as correspondence between Moore and the women interviewed and/or newsclippings are included in the files of a number of the women. The collection contains both original and edited transcripts of the interviews. Moore used much of this material as the basis for her 1996 book, Women in the Mines: Stories of...
Dates:
1980-1986
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Marat Moore Papers
Pittston Coal Company Strike Tape
Collection — Videotape 1
Identifier: AppMs-0351
Scope and Contents
On April 5, 1989 the United Mine Workers (UMW) called a strike against the Pittston Coal Group for unfair labor practices. Miners had worked 14 months without a contract before the UMW called the strike. Among the practices cited by UMW were the discontinuing of medical benefits for pensioners, widows, and the disabled; refusal to contribute to a benefit trust established in 1950 for miners who retired before 1974; and refusing to bargain in good faith. Miners in Virginia, Kentucky and West...
Dates:
1989
Jeanne M. Rasmussen Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0352
Scope and Contents
The Jeanne M. Rasmussen Collection contains both manuscript and photographic materials. Manuscript materials include personal correspondence and financial records; drafts of chapters from Rasmussen's unpublished manuscript on coal mining; essays written by Rasmussen on coal mining and other topics relating to Appalachia; and clippings and scrapbook materials on coal mining, the UMWA, and Rasmussen's writing and photography. The photographic prints depict Appalachian men, women, and children;...
Dates:
1947-2009; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1974
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Jeanne M. Rasmussen Papers
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