Poor Man's Fortune White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950

Poor Man's Fortune White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950

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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...

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Main Author: Roll, Jarod (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2020
Subjects:
History of the Americas
Political science & theory
white working class conservatism
anti-unionism in metal mining
white nationalism
metal mining in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma
strikebreaking
zinc industry
lead industry
working-class ideas about capitalism
working-class ideas about disease
Western Federation of Miners
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
leasehold mining
working-class manhood and masculinity
working-class nativism
working-class xenophobia
working-class racism
anti-monopoly
tariffs
Mickey Mantle
market incentives
working-class responses to government regulation
risk at work
whiteness
Tar Creek
Picher, Oklahoma
Joplin, Missouri
Galena, Kansas
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