Pittston Coal Strike

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This paper provides an account of the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-90. The writer demonstrates how the groups involved organized themselves in order to demand changes. The writer also offers a Marxist analysis of the case.

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the Pittston coal strike of 1989-90 with a view toward showing how the groups organized to demand changes in working conditions. The origin of the strike was the Pittston Coal Company's withdrawal from the industry wide contract between the United Mine Workers of America (U.M.W.) and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association (B.C.O.A.) and demands for significant union concessions at its Virginia and West Virginia mines. Union employees continued to work without a contract for about a year over the course of ... "

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