{"product_id":"which-side-are-you-on-the-harlan-county-coal-miners-1931-39-paperback-softback-9780252070778","title":"Which Side Are You on?; The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252070778","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhich Side Are You on?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn W. Hevener (Author), Robert Gipe (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252070778\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 February 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 15 black \u0026amp; white photographs, 1 line drawing\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"From this trip into an Appalachian arcanum, the reader emerges with an appreciation for those who finally gained those freedoms which most Americans took for granted, including the right to speak and assemble without fear.\" –- \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e \"Hevener has separated fact from legend in this competent study.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Depression-era Harlan County, Kentucky, was the site of one of the most bitter and protracted labor disputes in American history. The decade-long conflict between miners and the coal operators who adamantly resisted unionization has been immortalized in folksong by Florence Reece and Aunt Molly Jackson, contemplated in prose by Theodore Dreiser and Sherwood Anderson, and long been obscured by popular myths and legends. \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e John W. Hevener separates the fact from the legend in his Weatherford Award-winning investigation of Harlan's civil strife, now available for the first time in paperback. In \u003ci\u003eWhich Side Are You On?\u003c\/i\u003e Hevener attributes the violence–-including the deaths of thirteen union miners–-to more than just labor conflict, viewing Harlan's troubles as sectional economic conflict stemming from the county's rapid industrialization and social disorganization in the preceding decade. \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e Detailing the dimensions of unionization and the balance of power spawned by New Deal labor policy after government intervention, \u003ci\u003eWhich Side Are You On?\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive analysis of Harlan's bloody decade and a seminal contribution to American labor history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743747010840,"sku":"9780252070778","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/which-side-are-you-on-the-harlan-county-coal-miners-1931-39-paperback-softback-9780252070778","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}