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Mountaineer Mine Wars: An Analysis of the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1912–1913 and 1920–1921

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Hoyt N. Wheeler
Hoyt N. Wheeler
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Wyoming
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Abstract

Professor Wheeler describes and analyzes the extreme violence that marked labor-management relations in the West Virginia coal fields.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , Spring 1976 , pp. 69 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1976

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1 The author would like to express his appreciation to Robert Ozanne and Jack Barbash for their comments on a draft of this paper.

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