Author: Richard A. Brisbin Jr.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: strike, coal, pittston, resistance, law
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-08-07
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0801869013
ISBN-13: 9780801869013

The miners’ strike against Pittston Coal in 1989–1990, which spread throughout southwestern Virginia, southern West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky, was one of the most important strikes in the history of American labor, and, as Richard Brisbin observes, "one of the longest and largest incidents of civil disorder and civil disobedience in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century." The company aggressively sought to break the strike, and workers and their families used a variety of tactics—lawful and unlawful—to resist Pittston’s efforts as the situation qu