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Coal War in the Mahoning Valley

Coal War in the Mahoning Valley The Origin of Greater Youngstown's Italians - American Heritage

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The struggles and successes of the industrious coal miners in Ohio's Mahoning Valley.


Year after year, local Welsh coal diggers supplied the ravenous and roaring ironworks in Mahoning Valley but the good times ended in the closing weeks of 1872. The demand for iron slackened, and with it, coal orders fell. Responding to plunging coal prices, mine owners cut wages, but rank-and-file miners would have none of it. On New Year's Day, they went on strike. The bitter stalemate broke only when operators sidestepped local labor by employing African Americans from Virginia and Italian immigrants crowding the Eastern Seaboard. Violence followed. Yet this vicious strife opened the Mahoning Valley to permanent Italian settlement. Authors Ben Lariccia and Joe Tucciarone uncover this forgotten chapter in the region's storied labor history.

Book information

ISBN: 9781467142724
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: The History Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 977.139
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 201
Weight: 360g
Height: 153mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 10mm