United Mine Workers

A short history of the multiracial coal miners' strikes in Birmingham, Alabama, in the early 20th century which were violently repressed by mine…

In 1921 strikes were effectively illegal in the state of Kansas due a state arbitration system (the Industrial Court). In response the Kansas…

Article by the United Mine Workers of America, 20 years on from the 10-month-long Pittston Coal…

A short history of the successful 10 month long strike at Pittston Coal against cuts to retirement…

A short history of the great Colorado coal strike of 1927, called by the revolutionary union…

A comprehensive, if institutional, history of the CIO, an American federation of industrial unions that organized many of the mass industries in…

A short historical account and background of the often violent conflict between workers and employers in West Virginia's mines in the late 19th…

Alex Lichtenstein looks at the issue of race in an Alabama coal strike.

The story of the United Mine Workers of America District 18 and their path into, and then later out of, the radical One Big Union.

Jeremy Brecher's account of the strike wave in American mines from 1919 to 1922, where coalminers fought the bosses, the government and even the…

Jeremy Brecher's excellent account of the overlapping American miners' strikes in 1894: a national strike and a successful stoppage in Cripple…

Short history of a strike by miners in Colorado in 1927 and the massacre of strikers at the…