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Colliers across the Sea A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924 (Working Class in American History) Paperback - 2000

by John H. Laslett


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This masterful study charts the extensive common ground and telling differences between two widely separated coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the northern Illinois coalfield that became a prime destination for skilled Scottish migrant miners in the mid-nineteenth century. Challenging the prevailing exceptionalist paradigm of labor history, John Laslett examines the social, economic, and political context of each of these communities in generous detail. He traces the progressive heightening of class consciousness as the coal industry evolved from skilled hand labor to an increasingly mechanized extraction process and the escalating hostility between miners and mineowners as their interests split along class lines. Examining the rise of militant industrial unionism in both areas, Laslett provides a sophisticated explanation of the American and Scottish miners' divergent approaches to collectivist solutions. Based on a profound knowledge of both communities, Colliers across the Sea tells a compelling story of industrial transformation's human costs, of conflict and greed, and of democratic aspirations and community.

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In the early years of the nineteenth century, Wishaw and Larkhall typified dozens of small Lanarkshire communities that were undergoing the first phases of coal mine development.

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  • Title Colliers across the Sea A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924 (Working Class in American History)
  • Author John H. Laslett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 336
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana
  • Date February 24, 2000
  • ISBN 9780252068270
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