Description: Coal War in the Mahoning Valley, Ohio, American Heritage, Paperback The struggles and successes of the industrious coal miners in Ohio's Mahoning Valley.Year after year, local Welsh coal diggers supplied the ravenous and roaring ironworks in Mahoning Valley but the good times ended in the closing weeks of 1872. The demand for iron slackened, and with it, coal orders fell. Responding to plunging coal prices, mine owners cut wages, but rank-and-file miners would have none of it. On New Year's Day, they went on strike. The bitter stalemate broke only when operators sidestepped local labor by employing African Americans from Virginia and Italian immigrants crowding the Eastern Seaboard. Violence followed. Yet this vicious strife opened the Mahoning Valley to permanent Italian settlement. Authors Ben Lariccia and Joe Tucciarone uncover this forgotten chapter in the region's storied labor history.
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MPN: 9781467142724
Book Title: Coal War in the Mahoning Valley : the Origin of Greater Youngstown's Italians
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Ben Lariccia, Joe Tucciarone
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Labor & Industrial Relations, Emigration & Immigration, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, IL, in, Ks, MI, MN, MO, Nd, Ne, OH, Sd, Wi), Labor
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
