"The Best Organized Labor State in America": The People of District 12 and the Illinois Perspective, 1898-1932

This study concerns the people of the mining communities throughout the state of Illinois during the first three decades of the twentieth century. In the thirty-four years following the 1897 bituminous miners' strike and the subsequent 1898 event in Virden, the people of the Illinois mining com...

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Main Author: Markwell, David Thomas
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2010
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Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/134
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1134&context=dissertations