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Poor man's fortune : white working-class conservatism in American metal mining, 1850–1950
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ISBN: 1469656310 1469656280 1469656299 9798890858085 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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"White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, 'Poor Man's Fortune' tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal"--


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Spirit of rebellion
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ISBN: 0252099265 9780252035197 9780252077036 0252035194 0252077032 9780252099267 9781444315806 1444315803 Year: 2010 Publisher: Urbana

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Links working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals


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Poor Man's Fortune : White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950.
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The gospel of the working class
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ISBN: 1283168847 9786613168849 025209333X 9780252093333 9781283168847 0252036301 0252078403 9780252078408 9780252036309 661316884X Year: 2011 Publisher: Urbana, Chicago and Springfield

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The authors trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930's and 1940's across lines of gender, race and geography.

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